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The instinctive fear of snakes, spiders and such, is genetic, not cultural. However, it does have a cultural influence in multiple cultures, which leads to the fear being "seeded" unconsciously in a big amount of people, which only leads to redundancy. Positive retrofeed.

Of course, there are exceptions when it comes to it's cultural influence. The aztec culture comes to mind.