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| | What We Believe |
 | | Political culture refers to the general political orientation or disposition of a nation, the broad pattern of ideas, beliefs, and values that most of the population holds about the proper distribution of power in public life, the relationship of individuals to government, and the role that government ought to play. |
 | | Political culture is handed down from generation to generation, through families, schools, communities, literature, churches and synagogues, and so on, helping to provide stability for the nation by ensuring that a majority of citizens are well-grounded in and committed to the basic values that sustain it. |
 | | By individualistic we mean that what is good for society as a whole is assumed to be the same as what is good individually for all the people in it. |
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