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by digi_owl 3546 days ago
May have been the origin of the term, but these days it is basically "any culture that have practices and norm we do not understand and deem inferior to our own".
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> we do not understand and deem inferior to our own

Of course, those two things don't have to go together. It's perfectly reasonable to understand something and deem it inferior. And deeming it inferior isn't necessarily an indication that something isn't understood.