What is a political culture?

I got feedback for my last homework, I was told that it was better than previous ones:) Well, good! Although I don't think it was the best one. Anyway, here goes a bit about political culture (according to Ball:) and me):

Political culture is a way politics are accepted in a given country, meaning what it accepted in France cannot be accepted in Sweden for example. The most important that it is one of the many possible explanations of political behaviour and the decision made by political actors (individual voters or political élites).

Political culture is defined by variety of different factors, like socio-economic and cultural background, history, political socialisation… In some countries political culture is homogeneous while in others it may be divided according certain factor.

The easies way to analyze political culture is to analyze it within all possible contexts (time, place, conditions). I really liked all those examples mentioned by Ball, but I would like to look at Belarus once again. What kind of culture do we have? Is it a political culture? I would say that it is, it is a culture which was inherited from Soviet Union times. For example, if we look at so called “agencies of socialisation”, in SU educational programme of schoolchildren included an overt element of ‘moral education’ with stress on discipline, Soviet patriotism and proletarian internationalism, and dedication to the goals of the community, the state and the Communist party. Nowadays, in modern Belarus we have more or less the same: state ideology taught at all levels of educational system, state youth union, idealisation of THE president.

I think it is important to know what kind of political culture is in a given country, as I guess political culture plays also important role in the negotiation process on the international level as well as it influence decision making process.