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I don't have a corpus so I'm basing this off the result of Google search: "une culture" is a singular noun, but it seems that "une culture qui ont" is 2 times more frequently seen than "une culture qui a". Why is that?

Sur tous les plans, vous contestez une civilisation, une culture qui ont mis des siècles à se faire.

Il y a des symboles sacrés universels ou propres à une culture qui font écho à l'humanité entière

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This sounds like just a statistical anomaly.

In the first of your examples, the subject is "une civilisation, une culture" — which is plural because it's a civilisation and a culture that took centuries to build up.

In the second of your examples, the subject of "qui font écho" is "des symboles".

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In the 1st sentence, the subjects are "civilisation et culture". In the 2nd, the subjects are "symboles". In each case, a plural verb is called for.

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