But at the same time, culture is very subjective because if you think about it, in American it's common knowledge that you say please, thank you or any other type of pleasantries in certain situations. Not to mention, what we call common courtesy, for example, holding the door open for the people behind you is a way of sharing culture because some people may not know that. Culture can be broken down into a number of things but I think at its simplest form that it is just a matter of sharing mannerisms on a large scale, wider than just a friend group or a family. I think we could reconcile our different experiences of shared culture by realizing that at the very base of it all, a lot of things are very similar. There are types of experiences
