Carol Kubota
4 min readAug 2, 2021

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Culture affects our views of reality. It provides the mental concepts by which people perceive, interpret, analyze, and explain events in the world around them.

JAMES G. PEOPLES

What is American culture?

Japanese culture, which I absorbed into my bloodstream when I married my Japanese husband, has very distinct rules. Eat your food with chopsticks. Don’t…