Europeans need to look more closely at the cultural traits that are inhibited at home but given freer rein in America.

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Yet Disney has caught flak for what some say is the perpetuation of stereotypes through a character that lacks any real cultural traits.

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It still takes the right generation with the right cultural traits and the right environmental circumstances to really embrace the concept and adopt it systemically.

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However, not everyone agrees that cultural traits should be discarded.

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Some deeply imbedded cultural traits are a handicap.

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Nor are some deeply embedded cultural traits.

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The conventional wisdom about the economic and political rise of women is that an information intensive economy prizes the cultural and neurological traits of women more than men.

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"Certain behavioral traits, like averting eye contact, could be cultural and not indicative of a liar, " says Joseph Buckley, president of John E.

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