Cultural Creatives

Cultural Creatives

Traditional Definition:

This term is new. No traditional definition exists.

New World Definition:

This term was first coined in the book "Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People Are Changing The World" by Paul H Ray Ph.D and Ruth Anderson Ph.D. It is Published by Harmony.

An Excerpt:

Imagine a country the size of France suddenly sprouting in the middle of the United States. It is immensely rich in culture, with new ways of life, values and worldviews. It has its own heroes and its own vision for the future. Think how curious we all would be, how interested to discover who these people are and where they have come from. In Washingon and on the Sunday morning news shows, politicians would certainly have strong opinions about what it all means, and pundits would be expressing their views with their usual certainty. Businesses would be planning strategies to market to this population, and political groups would be exploring alliances. The media, of course, would be blazing with first-person interviews and inside stories of the new arrivals, instead of the latest Beltway scandals.

Now imagine something different. There is a new country, just as big and just as rich in culture, but no one sees it. It takes shape silently and almost invisibly, as if flown in under radar in the dark of night.

Please visit the Cultural Creatives Home website for more information.

As a whole, Cultural Creatives share a common set of values. These values are Sustainability, Community & Culture, The Feminine, Body Mind & Spirit, Social Conscience, and Optimisim.

Interviews

Our Editor, Tim Mejan had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Paul Ray. They discussed Dr Ray's book and more.

Interview with Paul Ray Part 1 (Tim Mejan & Paul H. Ray, Ph D)

It's important to remember that within the Moderns, which represent 47 to 48 percent of the population, there's a group that's 20 percent of the total population -- about 35 to 40 percent of the Moderns -- who are clearly in transition toward being Cultural Creatives."... "Perhaps it's not good for their promotion at work, it doesn't fit with their neighbors and doesn't fit with the people they go to church with -- but they're in transition."

Interview with Paul Ray Part 2 (Tim Mejan & Paul H. Ray, Ph.D)

"So, the issue of people dismissing the idea of Cultural Creatives and dismissing the idea of green products or healthy lifestyle products was true in big, mainstream businesses five years ago. Since then, we've gone through a period in which big food companies have been acquiring very successful, rapid growth, smaller food companies that are green, organic, healthy lifestyle"..." It was drastically easier to simply pick up a whole business, let it be a relatively autonomous part and let it keep running itself."

Quotations

"Hype doesn't sell worth a damn with Cultural Creatives "
~Paul Ray

"Cultural Creatives themselves are astonished to find out how many share both their values and their way of life."
~ Cultural Creatives Homepage

"Cultural Creatives are responding to these challenges with solutions directed toward healing and integration."
~Cultural Creatives Homepage