Recognizing that many social maladies stem from religious origins, a proposal is made to
see societies as “culture trees” in order to intellectually frame and to practically approach
development for mobilizing change. A vocabulary is introduced to visualize a culture as
a distinctive lifezone which occupies geographical space.
“WV3 ” designates a cultural matrix composed of a worldvoice (luminary mentor of
adoration), worldview (lens mindset of analysis), and worldvenue (lifestyle mazeway of
attitudes-actions). Conceptually, a culture tree is an interrelated social system of
worldvoice roots, worldview shoots, and worldvenue fruits.
Proposals by Ambedkar, Marx, and Gandhi are noted; a case study of India’s father of
social revolution, Jotirao Phule, is delineated. Phule’s activist voice is used to describe
India’s WV3 Culture Tree, its spiritual mentor roots, systemic mindset shoots, and social
mazeway fruits.