Culture Can Be Adaptive or Maladaptive

Culture can be adaptive or maladaptive. It is maladaptive when

A) it threatens the core values of a culture that guarantee its integration.
B) it exhibits cultural traits that are not shared with the majority of the group.
C) cultural traits, patterns, and inventions disrupt the world economy, causing international discontent.
D) cultural traits, patterns, and inventions threaten the group's continued survival and reproduction and thus its very existence.
E) cultural traits diminish the survival of particular individuals but not others.