Both in theory and practice, our understanding of what "culture" is remains
limited; the subject, in fact is either misrepresented or all bat ignored
in most of the popular and scholarly, literatures The author offers six mut
ually, related ideas that help to explain what culture is not. He then desc
ribes an approach to understanding cultures that he finds more useful. The
implications of that approach have led him to several different techniques
for teaching the subject in negotiation classes.