Our Barriers: Cultural Heritage or Personal Choice?

By Michael Kongo

The book "Our Barriers: Cultural Inheritance or Personal Choice?" explores how the often unconscious limits we impose on ourselves are shaped by our culture of origin. It examines the tension between cultural heritage and self-assertion, seeking to identify the cultural mechanisms that become blocks.The book emphasizes that culture structures our minds, encoding norms and values from childhood, to the point where our choices can seem personal when in fact they are dictated by this conditioning. The text identifies various personal limits (physical, emotional, mental) which, although protective, can become rigid if inherited without question. Case studies illustrate how these boundaries vary according to culture (Asian, Western, African, Arab), where norms and traditions influence their perception.the book proposes to "reprogram" these cultural patterns, not to reject them, but to consciously transform them.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 620905613X
• ISBN13: 9786209056130
• Release Date: September 2025
• Publisher: Our Knowledge Publishing
• Length: 56 Pages
• Weight: 0.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"