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Because most interpretation goes on at subconscious level, you lack awareness of the assumptions you make and their cultural basis. Your home culture reality never forces you to examine your assumptions or the extent to which they are culturally biased, because you share your cultural assumptions with most citizens of your country. All you know is that things do not work as smoothly or logically when you work outside your own culture as when you work with people more similar to yourself. For example, a Canadian conducting business in Kuwait was very surprised when his meeting with a high-ranking official was not held in a closed office and was constantly interrupted. Since the Canadian-based cultural assumption is that important people have large offices and do not get interrupted, he came to the conclusion that this officer was neither a high ranking one nor interested in conducting the business, which might not have been the truth.