Cultural Perspectives: Popular beliefs, commonly held values, folk ideas, shared values, and assumptions widely held by members of a culture.

• The perspectives of a culture sanction the cultural practices and create a need for the products.

• The perspectives provide the reason for "why they do it that way" and the explanation for “how can they possibly think that

• Since practices and products not only derive from perspectives, but sometimes interact to change perspectives, this fundamental component of culture must be incorporated to meet the world languages standard.