Even for basic perception as seeing one cannot do without culture. There is no purely etic vision, because seeing only the etic literally means nothing as a recognition.
1-2a1 Our ‘direct’ experience is also virtual because its meaning is conjectured and interpreted via guesses
10-2g1 Culture is an implicit theory for its members. It dictates what to look at and how they reason about the world.
1-1a2e9 Emic vision = Interpreting what you are seeing as symbols