For the same reason that I look people in the eye while conversing, a gesture of confidence and sincerity, is the same reason that the people of Japan consider direct and constant eye contact a rude gesture that means defiance or challenge, and they shift their eyes or look down to show respect to another. Our culture educated us to act in certain ways and form habits accord to what is considered normal. I argue that moral and ethical values are determined by one's culture. Culture dictates what a person learns, how one behaves, and their habitual modes of thought and reason. Indiv…
