Prince: What is belief..Culture..?

Can somebody tell him what culture is and what is belief?

His family believes in the teaching of Buddhism, but he is a free thinker, with his own belief of god. He hates superstitious, but do not abandon the cultural heritage & belief which has been inherited thousand years ago.

However, being the new brat living in this new generation, he has his own thinking and he believes that human should always look at culture and belief at a different perspective, which is way from being extreme or superstitious.

His family likes to cook well-dishes to pray for ancestor, as the Chinese believes that their souls will return on this special festive for a feast, and his family, likes any other traditional Chinese family, will pray at the backyard where they believes backyard is where those unrest ghost spirit wondering around.

He has been trying hard to educate his family about the superstitious belief, and they did change a lot from the past, where they now cook less, and moderately, for praying. Somehow, they can not totally abandon the belief as this is part of the culture.

For him, he usually lights incense for prayers, this is to show his respect and his belief. He makes his prayers in church and temples, as according to how it should be, regardless of believing it or not, but this is respect the existence of the gold themselves.