Cultural Differences In American Culture

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Most of the time, foreigners are nice to people living in the country they are travelling to. This is because they allready expect to socialize with other cultures and other races from the moment they leave their country. However, how tolerant they are, actually depends on the culture they come from, wether is a conservative culture or an open minded one, and how used to they are to interacting with other cultures. In some cases, it depends on their beliefs, and how it is expected from them to behave within their religion and how to view the world and outside cultures. There have been many cases where, even when they are travelling to a country with a culture diversity, for example USA, muslim men refuse to sit next to woman in planes, refusing

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