Cultural attitudes

We all inherit a given cultural attitude to life - our attitude to work, family life, that kind of thing. I have moved from one cultural outlook into another, so called social mobility, but there feels like there is something not quite right about this modern life I have moved into.

This article on the bbc sort of describes it 

Can you detect the cultural attitude that is being transmitted through the modern, middle class british outlook? Can you feel the strands of expectation stretching back through time?