[ozkai]

The sacrifice could possibly play the part of the excuse within the disagreement.

I've found that some cultures adopt better to other's.

For example, I have a Japanese female friend who is a permanant Australian resident (Not Citizen), and she hates the place and people.

Then I have some good friends as a married couple with two kids who migrated here from Japan, and they are thoroughly LOVING Sydney, the beaches, people, food, schooling, and all the other good stuff..

So I guess in that respect, we could class that as not being a culture, but rather an individual.

I think it's easy to confuse culture with personality here..

That's why I think the sentence "You don't understand my culture" can be taken as an excuse in many instances.

Some cultures don't accept it and it will always be explained as "You are in my country"