As the 19th century progressed, Europe's innovations, norms and categories came to achieve a truly universal hegemony.
Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void.
Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.
Obamacare is simply incapable of doing what it is supposed to do - provide nearly universal care at an affordable and sustainable cost.
It's perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other animals and that it is language-specific. The theory of that genetic component, whatever it turns out to be, is what is called universal grammar.