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Culture plays a crucial role in our lives. Mainly on a subconscious level it influences our behavior, decisions and judgments on everything we encounter. Although most people instinctively know what the term culture means, it is hard to formalize and even more difficult to explain what drives people to feel they are a member of a certain culture.

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Endrass, B. (2014). Introduction. In: Cultural Diversity for Virtual Characters. Springer Vieweg, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-04910-2_1

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