Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. In the United States, cultural differences between regions of the country are often pointed to as examples of how diverse ...

“No.” It's one of the most commonly used words in any language, but people’s willingness to openly voice disagreement varies by the cultural norms of their backgrounds. These differences matter ...

Since antiquity, people have speculated about why it is that people in different parts of the world have different customs, rules, habits, and psychological tendencies. Indeed, if you’ve traveled ...

Large cross-cultural studies of human psychology—attempts to document our geographically varying ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving around the world—are becoming more common. Also becoming more ...

As I have said before, there is no right or wrong necessarily with Western thinking just as there is no right or wrong with Eastern thinking. It is when Western thinking dominates in inappropriate ...