What does it mean to be a citizen of a permanent culture?  What are the responsibilities of each citizen? What are the privileges?

What values do you consider to be important in a permanent culture?  How would you create buy in from your fellow citizens to those values as well as implement and maintain them?

In every U.S. history class, we learned how committed the first Europeans who came to this continent were to fleeing religious and governmental persecution through the lengths they went to in hopes of creating a life in North America on their terms.

In that vein, what commitment would you consider necessary from those who were interested in building a permanent culture?