Cultural Perspective

Cultural Perspective

America Must Choose: Tradition or Freedom

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Way Yuhl
Oct 03, 2025
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The fifth deep cultural rift in America today is about how people believe life should be lived.

The divide runs along a fault line that the cultural theorist Shalom Schwartz called one of the ten universal value types: Tradition versus Self-Direction.

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