How do beliefs and culture shape our lifestyle choices?

Both belief and culture has a dramatic impact on our lifestyle choices. From the clothes we wear to the our job, we choose everything within the domain of our beliefs and our cultural background. Over a period of time, due to external influences from the environment, our perspectives change and so do our beliefs. Cultural thought is something that takes time to change because pressure from family and relatives make things difficult. When you try to free yourself from cultural shackles, these people will stop you from doing it by enforcing their point of view.