Do these non-literary activities lower cultural standards?

这些非文学活动是否降低了文化水平？

Values are the cultural standards that people use to decide what’s good or bad, what’s right or wrong.

价值观是人们用来判断好坏、对错的文化标准。

Secondly, the author argues that the transition from reading literature to engaging in other insignificant forms of entertainment has decreased cultural standards.

其次，作者认为从阅读文学到从事其他无关紧要的娱乐形式的转变降低了文化标准。

Healthy guilt alerts us to our morality, to the pain and hurt that we might be causing to other people, to the social and cultural standards that we may have crossed.

健康的负罪感提醒我们注意自己的道德，提醒我们可能对他人造成的痛苦和伤害， 提醒我们可能已经跨越的社会和文化标准。