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An example of something that would be ethical in one culture but unethical in another culture is named.

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Cultural ethical differences are explored.

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Yes I think I can. I'm a Swede living in Sweden. Nominally a Protestant Christian but in fact a very skeptic agnostic. My wife is Israeli, a Sephardic Israeli Jew. Her parents were both born in Istamboul Turkey and emigrated to Israel in 1949. We have an apartment in Israel too, just north of Tel Aviv, but also one here in Stockholm, Sweden. I'm a physician-surgeon, a doctor of medicine and a specialist of cancer (medical oncology & radiation therapy) though now retired. My wife is religious while I'm not but we do respect each other. When I was a Swedish medical student I was an exchange student to the Hebrew University, Hadassah Medical School-Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel. When my parents in law got ill and later died I followed their hospital paths on location in Israel. So I think I can say ...

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