Gumbo is a dish that brought together different cultures and created a single dish that represents each culture. I feel that the only non-material culture that this dish represents is societal culture. Since societal culture is mainly about creation and modeling, the gumbo dish has a societal culture meaning behind it because in Louisiana as a whole small society with different cultures, they created a dish that can be eaten by whom ever. I feel that people of African descent can live without this dish because there are many more traditional foods out there. By eliminating the gumbo dish, the only thing that would be missed would be the symbolic meaning behind this dish, which is the meaning of different cultures coming together to create a single dish. During that time it was difficult for different cultures to come together, but the gumbo dish made it very easy for these cultures to interact with one another. This is why the gumbo dish is very unique.