1. Many Americans harbor a grossly distorted and exaggerated view of most of the risks surrounding food.
2. Researchers who are unfamiliar with the cultural and ethnic groups they are studying must take extra precautions to shed any biases they bring with them from their own culture.
3. The MBA, a 20th-century product, always has borne the mark of lowly commerce and greed on the tree-lined campuses ruled by purer disciplines such as philosophy and literature.
4. Our culture has caused most Americans to assume not only that our language is universal but that the gestures we use are understood by everyone.
5. Our linguistic (语言上的) and cultural blindness and the casualness with which we take notice of the developed tastes, gestures, customs and languages of other countries, are losing us friends, business and respect in the world.
