Listen to this 16 minute podcast from NPR discussing what should be included in a cultural guidebook to the United States. 
Choose one example from the story that you found particularly interesting. What makes this an element of U.S. culture? (In this answer you should show an understanding of what culture is.) How might an individual explain this practice from an ethnocentric perspective? The perspective of cultural relativism? Give your own example of something either from the United States' culture or another culture that you know well that could be included as an entry in a cultural guidebook.
(If the link about does not work, here is a link that can be copied and pasted: http://www.npr.org/2012/08/07/158370071/what-foreigners-teach-americans-about-u-s-culture ).
