cultures

Although Switzerland and America may have very different work cultures and social support policies, that's not the most obvious difference.

And it's reasonable to sometimes expect cultures of criminality to take root as a result.

This is probably a result of our previous lack of knowledge and slow-changing institutional cultures.

It seems that all the Mediterranean cultures have been doing something wrong for some centuries.

You also completely forget the world isn't limited to the US and other cultures consider the equivalent of the word entirely differently.

Physical displays of affection among men is more common in cultures where such displays aren't likely to be misinterpreted as sexual in nature.

It seems some cultures are angry at homosexuality being first class lifestyle.

A lot of Asian cultures actually have a culture around teeth blackening.

Especially when those gestures are not considered gross in other cultures.

Banking and S&L regulations were two separate structures, with different regulatory organizations, and, presumably therefore, somewhat isolated organizational cultures in those organizations.

I'm really curious how pre antique cultures, tribes for instance, dealt with this.

The Wall Street and Silicon Valley cultures are converging.

This was the first thing we read in freshman World Cultures class in high school -- the context was to make us aware of our own ethnocentric bias when studying "other" cultures.

Is "retard" particularly offensive in some cultures?

The difference between male/female and race hegemonies is also well understood (and seen in many other cultures), because the classification of women as "strangers" is always very different from that of actual foreign ethnicities.

Yes and the author tells a story about Western culture but I kept asking "how do you know?" Eastern cultures may have the same bias but without enough technological development over their history to actualize it at the same rate that we have.