{"id":2387,"date":"2011-01-10T12:41:48","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T12:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/solomonappiah.wordpress.com\/?p=44"},"modified":"2022-04-13T19:13:44","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T19:13:44","slug":"kulture-shifts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunesishq.com\/notes\/kulture-shifts\/","title":{"rendered":"Culture Shifts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0cm 2cm 12pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: black;\">\u2026until the culture of governmental mismanagement is changed, we can expect anything we give the government to do to be many times less efficient and more expensive than it should be. How much better off would the needy be if all that is now being wasted in administration actually reached the needs?\u2014Rick <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: black;\">J<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: black;\">oy<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: black;\">ner<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: black;\">Culture is formed by the interpretation of facts, ideas, and thoughts, and these phenomena are dynamic. They can change. But what is it that causes a shift in cultural orientation?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: #2f5496;\">Precipitants of Culture Change<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: black;\">Many factors cause cultural change or culture shifts. I <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: black;\">do not<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: black;\"> presume to know all the factors that converge to spark a revolution in culture. S<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: black;\">o<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: black;\"> today, I will not even attempt to do that. I want to just share two things which, at least from the\u00a0testimony\u00a0of history, have been observed to aid change culturally.<\/span><\/p>\n<ol style=\"margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 12.0pt;\">\n<li style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 0px; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 24px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: black;\">the first is growth of the critical mass<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 0px; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 24px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: black;\">the second is the passion with which the few impact the whole, i.e., the principle of the leaven or yeast<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: #2f5496;\">The Critical Mass<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: black;\">This principle can be seen in grassroots revolutionary movements such as that which\u00a0transpired\u00a0in what can be <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: black;\">described as<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: black;\"> the Jasmine\u00a0Revolution or the Arab Spring. This is what also\u00a0occurred\u00a0through the Protestant Reformation, which resulted in what has been termed the protestant ethic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: black;\">In such a scenario, a number of assumptions are made. One such assumption is that the general populace of a nation or region might be suffering from information\u00a0deficiency, i.e., lack of adequate information based upon which they can take decisions. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: black;\">Another\u00a0assumption\u00a0is that the populace are afraid and cower though they have information because they fear the governing class. Whatever the situation might be, when the critical mass of folks who have adopted a new way of thinking begin to increase, sooner or later, they will, through the power of ideas, topple the former\u00a0ideology and its attendant culture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: black;\">When change occurs within the psyche of the critical mass in any population, the culture will also change or shift. Culture follows thinking. This is why\u00a0cultures\u00a0with a good sense of\u00a0self-worth\u00a0and identity thrive, and those with self-esteem issues end up in the quagmire of retrogression and under-development.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: black;\">If a critical mass of the business community within a city, e.g., Accra-Ghana, undergoes a change in their thoughts and ideas about how to conduct business, the business culture in Accra will shift from that which was precipitated by the former way of thinking to one birthed by the new thoughts, ideas or mindset.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"margin: 2pt 0cm 12pt; line-height: 115%; break-after: avoid; font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'Calibri Light', sans-serif; color: #2f5496; font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: black;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"margin: 2pt 0cm 12pt; line-height: 115%; break-after: avoid; font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'Calibri Light', sans-serif; color: #2f5496; font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: black;\">If the critical mass of people in a business community believed in bribery as a means to supplement income, a culture of corruption that undermines efficiency and productivity will prevail in the business community. However, if new thoughts and ideas that promote integrity, equity, justice, ethics, accountability, and responsibility are introduced into this community, and these new thoughts are accepted by a critical mass of the population, a culture shift will occur. The once corrupt culture will metamorphose into one of integrity that promotes efficiency and productivity.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"margin: 2pt 0cm 12pt; line-height: 115%; break-after: avoid; font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'Calibri Light', sans-serif; color: #2f5496; font-weight: normal;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif;\">The Passionate Few<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"margin: 2pt 0cm 12pt; line-height: 115%; break-after: avoid; font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'Calibri Light', sans-serif; color: #2f5496; font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: black;\">From history, we learn that in many cases, there need not be a critical mass of populations\u00a0believing\u00a0a particular new way of thin<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: black;\">kin<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: black;\">g for<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: black;\"> significant<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: black;\">CHANGE to occur. This can be accomplished by a select few if the passion with\u00a0which\u00a0the few pursue their new way of thinking is fervent <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: black;\">while <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: black;\">the <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: black;\">majority are fearful, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: black;\">apathetic, indifferent, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: black;\">or<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: black;\">\u00a0unconcerned<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: black;\">.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"margin: 2pt 0cm 12pt; line-height: 115%; break-after: avoid; font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'Calibri Light', sans-serif; color: #2f5496; font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: black;\">When the masses stand by idle and allow through their passivity for the passionate few to advance their cause, sooner or later, the leaven or yeast of the new way of thinking will work its way throughout the entire dough of the society, nation, or\u00a0continent.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"margin: 2pt 0cm 12pt; line-height: 115%; break-after: avoid; font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'Calibri Light', sans-serif; color: #2f5496; font-weight: normal;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif;\">Conclusion<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"margin: 2pt 0cm 12pt; line-height: 115%; break-after: avoid; font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'Calibri Light', sans-serif; color: #2f5496; font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: black;\">Owing to all the above reasons, a great need of any society, nation, and continent is positive or moral change agents\u2014culture shifters\u2014persons or systems which sow seeds of right and just moral thoughts and ideas that develop into positive values and customs that can serve as triggers of cultural changes that ultimately enhance the quality of life for the society, nation or continent.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"margin: 2pt 0cm 12pt; line-height: 115%; break-after: avoid; font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'Calibri Light', sans-serif; color: #2f5496; font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: black;\">History is a collection of culture shifts precipitated by the change of mindset of the <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: black;\">either the passionate <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: black;\">majority or the passionate few.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"margin: 2pt 0cm 12pt; line-height: 115%; break-after: avoid; font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'Calibri Light', sans-serif; color: #2f5496; font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: black;\">When colonized Ghanaians became literate and got exposure to the rest of the world, their thinking changed, and it eventually led to independence\u2014liberty from imperial hegemony. The knowledge of the truth doth set free.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"margin: 2pt 0cm 12pt; text-align: center; line-height: 115%; break-after: avoid; font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'Calibri Light', sans-serif; color: #2f5496; font-weight: normal;\" align=\"center\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: black;\">Our culture is a photograph of our mindset<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"margin: 2pt 0cm 12pt; line-height: 115%; break-after: avoid; font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'Calibri Light', sans-serif; color: #2f5496; font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: black;\">A culture of endemic corruption in an organization or nation is a clue as to the collective mindset of the people within which the corrupt practices inhabit and thrive.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"margin: 2pt 0cm 12pt; line-height: 115%; break-after: avoid; font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'Calibri Light', sans-serif; color: #2f5496; font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: black;\">The way many underdeveloped nations have historically elected or condoned corrupt or bad leaders in their executive, legislative and judicial arms of government is a pointer to the state of the mindset of the people. It is a gauge of the \u2018internal selection system,\u2019 which is the mechanism that informs our selection criteria which results in the type of leaders we elect ourselves or allow to elect themselves through rigged elections.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"margin: 2pt 0cm 12pt; line-height: 115%; break-after: avoid; font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'Calibri Light', sans-serif; color: #2f5496; font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: black;\">Our leaders point to the thoughts and ideas of the critical mass of the population of our society. Where this is the exception, i.e., where the leader is not a true reflection of the thoughts and ideals of the critical mass, it means that the leader is a dictator and a despot. <\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"margin: 2pt 0cm 12pt; line-height: 115%; break-after: avoid; font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'Calibri Light', sans-serif; color: #2f5496; font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: black;\">Eventually, the critical mass will invariably rise up against such a leader and oust him or her.<\/span><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026until the culture of governmental mismanagement is changed, we can expect anything we give the government to do to be many times less efficient and&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[353],"tags":[385,686,146,489],"class_list":["post-2387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-policy-advocacy","tag-culture","tag-culture-shifts","tag-governance","tag-mindset"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Culture Shifts | SUNESIS NOTES<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"\u2026until the culture of governmental mismanagement is changed, we can expect anything we give the government to do to be many times less efficient and more\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sunesishq.com\/notes\/kulture-shifts\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Culture Shifts | SUNESIS NOTES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u2026until the culture of governmental mismanagement is changed, we can expect anything we give the government to do to be many times less efficient and more\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/sunesishq.com\/notes\/kulture-shifts\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"SUNESIS NOTES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sunesislearning\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/web.facebook.com\/sunesislearning\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-01-10T12:41:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-04-13T19:13:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/sunesishq.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/20190730-01-768x480-1.webp\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"768\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"480\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/webp\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Solomon Appiah, Ph.D.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@SunesisLearning\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Solomon Appiah, Ph.D.\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sunesishq.com\/notes\/kulture-shifts\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sunesishq.com\/notes\/kulture-shifts\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Solomon Appiah, Ph.D.\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sunesishq.com\/notes\/#\/schema\/person\/75fe43ac2403c70d6e7fd41da21ba2a8\"},\"headline\":\"Culture Shifts\",\"datePublished\":\"2011-01-10T12:41:48+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-04-13T19:13:44+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sunesishq.com\/notes\/kulture-shifts\/\"},\"wordCount\":936,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sunesishq.com\/notes\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sunesishq.com\/notes\/kulture-shifts\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/sunesishq.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/20190730-01-768x480-1.webp\",\"keywords\":[\"Culture\",\"culture shifts\",\"Governance\",\"Mindset\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Policy &amp; 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