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Culture refers to shared patterns of human behavior. Cultural norms affect the ways people think, eat, dress, work, spend leisure time, understand natural phenomena, and communicate, in addition to other fundamental aspects of human interactions. Cultures vary widely in these respects, so that people in one cultural group might at times find those from another group to be difficult to understand or unusual. They might also evaluate their differences negatively, seeing them only as deficits.
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Mesibov, G.B. et al. (2004). The Culture of Autism. In: The Teacch Approach to Autism Spectrum Disorders. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-306-48647-0_3
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