The United States of America has been within me since the day I dreamed of it, since the day I met Og Mandino’s University of Success. The American cultural mindset has been a piece of the puzzle that was missing in me. It has been a masterpiece that I wanted. I lived in it from afar, as the sky and the earth, and now the American cultural mindset has reached down inside me and taken root, as a seed buried into the ground rich in humus. I have resolved to think only its thoughts that elevate itself, and so that I can continue to elevate myself as much as I can. What is the nature of the American cultural mindset? How can I explain it? What is it? The American cultural mindset is simply democracy, as Og Mandino defined, which is freedom and …show more content…
I have been taught to hold firm to life. In the same collective cultural mindset, I have been taught that a man seems not to ‘‘be’’ in charge of his destiny, but God and gods are. We have been taught to believe in external-control philosophy. My hybrid cultural mindset is like the sea. All rivers go into the sea, yet the sea is never full as the full moon. That is, my hybrid cultural mindset has to flow as the sea not to be stagnant like water in the bowl. My hybrid cultural mindset is what I make of it. It is more than what is on the surface. It is also how I deal with it in effective, nobler, greater and grander way. It occurs to me that we as people evolve through cultural mindset. And no society and people have evolved without borrowing from other cultures, learning from other people’s experiences and being part of them in some way or another. What has elevated the spirit of some and broken down that of others should be the core of our evolution or demise. And learning from other cultures is the makeup of my hybrid culture. Cultural mindset is not static, but evolutive. So, I pledge to my heart that my hybrid cultural mindset be