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Culture is a powerful teacher. Whether we are judging beauty or evaluating a child’s behavior, the cultural lens we look through influences our assessments of reality. Many years back, researchers seeking to demonstrate this used a binocular-like device to compare the perceptual preferences of Americans and Mexicans. They showed each subject 10 pairs of photographs. In each pair, one photo displayed a picture from U.S. culture and the other photo a picture from Mexican culture. After viewing the paired images through the binoculars, the subjects reported their observations. Both the Americans and the Mexicans were more likely to report having seen a picture from their own culture—the other image visible through the viewfinder was not perceived.⁵⁶ Similarly, we tend to be more perceptually accurate in recognizing and interpreting expressions of emotion sent by members of our own culture.⁵⁷