Each Culture Has Its Own Characteristic Manner

I May Be Able To Spot Arrowheads On The Desert But A Refrigerator Is A Jungle In Which I Am Easily Lost. My Wife, However, Will Unerringly Point Out That The Cheese Or The Leftover Roast Is Hiding Right In Front Of My Eyes. Hundreds Of Such Experiences Convince Me That Men And Women Often Inhabit Quite Different Visual Worlds. These Are Differences Which Cannot Be Attributed To Variations In Visual Acuity. Man And Women Simply Have Learned To Use Their Eyes In Very Different Ways.

The Reason Man Does Not Experience His True Cultural Self Is That Until He Experiences Another Self As Valid He Has Little Basis For Validating His Own Self.

The Essence Of Cross-cultural Communication Has More To Do With Releasing Responses Than With Sending Messages. It Is More Important To Release The Right Response Than To Send The Right Message.

Age Affects How People Experience Time.

By Their Very Nature Bureaucracies Have No Conscience, No Memory, And No Mind.