Culturally bounded leaning

Much of what we call "culture" are the taken-for-granted (tacit) assumptions we have about the ways of the world, how we go about "doing things." I have taught and lived  in Japan, China, and the Czech Republic. Paradoxically, I learned more about my own culture than I learned about the new culture. The new culture reframed a deeper understanding of those many things I take for granted, such as  how strongly we value the individual, what individual freedom to chose means,  what leadership  and motivation mean, etc. These ideas take on different meanings in different cultures. That is what we mean by "culturally bounded learning."