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For the same reason that I look people in the eye while conversing, a gesture of confidence and sincerity, is the same reason that the people of Japan consider direct and constant eye contact a rude gesture that means defiance or challenge, and they shift their eyes or look down to show respect to another. Our culture educated us to act in certain ways and form habits accord to what is considered normal. I argue …

…of all human habits and behaviors. Ethics are derived and morals created from the environment you learn and live in. To judge one person from one culture based on a universal set of rules or another person culture is self defeating and contradictory of the term subjective and is impossible to do fairly. To accept and judge a person within the terms of their culture is the only fair and just way to do things.