What is a cultural mindset?

each one of us is shaped by the cultural mindset

A new cultural spiritual arc will require a new cultural mindset. But what is a cultural mindset? Simply put, our cultural mindset comprises a set of norms, beliefs, habits, feelings, and values that predispose us to act in certain ways. Our cultural mindset sits just beneath the level of our conscious awareness, informing and limiting how we collectively think, feel, and behave. One example of a norm within the Western cultural mindset is the value placed on “linear, logical, data-driven ways of knowledge and decision-making (igi.Global.com).

How individuals live from the cultural mindset is further shaped by personal lived experience and particular familial/communal/spiritual norms, expectations, and beliefs. So, even though our collective thoughts, feelings, and behaviours are shaped by the cultural mindset, each person lives the cultural mindset in a nuanced way.