Ideal Culture refers to the norms, values, beliefs, and practices that a society outwardly professes, publicly endorses, and explicitly strives to uphold as its standards for behaviour and social life. It represents the idealised version of a society's culture, encompassing the goals, aspirations, and moral principles that are formally taught, celebrated, and often enshrined in laws and official documents. Ideal culture provides a set of guidelines for how people should behave and what they should value. However, it often stands in contrast to "real culture," which refers to the actual social patterns and behaviours observed in everyday life that may deviate from or only partially approximate these idealised expectations. The discrepancy between ideal and real culture can be a source of social tension, hypocrisy, or calls for social change, as individuals and groups navigate the gap between espoused ideals and lived realities.