The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore

My husband still sharpens his Indian-made pencils with his Indian-made knife, does his writing with reed pens, drinks his water out of a bell-metal
vessel, and works at night in the light of an old-fashioned castor-oil lamp. But this dull, milk-and-water Swadeshi' of his never appealed to me.
Rather, I had always felt ashamed of the Inelegant, unfashionable furniture of his reception-rooms, especially when he had the magistrate, or any
other European, as his guest.
My husband used to make light of my protests. "Why allow such trifles to upset you?" he would say with a smile.
"They will think us barbarians, or at all events wanting in refinement."
My husband had an ordinary brass pot on his writing-table which he used as a flower-vase. It has often happened that, when I had news of some
European guest, I would steal into his room and put in its place a crystal vase of European make. "Look here, Bimala," he objected at length, that
brass pot Is as unconscious of itself as those blossoms are; but this thing protests its purpose so loudly, it is only fit for artificial flowers."
1. Swadeshi: part of the Indian Independence movement; aimed to remove British influence and rely on Indian goods

Select the correct answer.
Read the excerpt from The Home and the World.
What cultural trait is most represented in this excerpt?
A educational expectations
B. regional dialect
C. material objects
D. political power