I'm just hazarding a guess at this stage (I'll look more into it when I'm not so busy) but what is the faction_creator of the city? I'm guessing for buildings placed in the city at the start of the game (ie. included in descr_strat.txt) have the culture (and thus descriptions) of the faction_creator of that city, not the faction that controls the city at the start of the game.
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