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Every country has a different way of thinking, Compare and contrast the thinking style among U.S. culture, Japanese culture, and European culture. Please use APA format and cite sources.

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Problem: Every country has a different way of thinking, Compare and contrast the thinking style among U.S. culture, Japanese culture, and European culture.

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The thinking style within US culture is a style that exhibits raw individualism as the mainstay of the thinking patterns of Americans in general. The US culture seems to value robust individualism and self-reliance as the defining mechanisms of the American way, and individuals within this nation develop their own manner of analyzing situations, and developing their own opinions about observed phenomena. Americans tend to have the strongest bonds with immediate family ...

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