 European culture developed with a complex range of philosophy, medieval scholasticism, mysticism and Christian and secular humanism.Rational thinking developed through a long age of change and formation, with the experiments of the Enlightenment and breakthroughs in the sciences.Tendencies that have come to define modern Western societies include the concept of political pluralism, individualism, prominent subcultures or countercultures (such as New Age movements) and increasing cultural syncretism resulting from globalization and human migration.