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Aborigine (Australia)
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Amish (USA)
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Austrian
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Indonesian
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Italian-American (USA)
Japanese
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Kazakh (fantasy version)
Korean
Krakozhian (fantasy)
Lebanese (Sweden)
Maori (New Zealand)
Mexican
Mexican-American (USA)
Mongolian
Montenegrin traditional (Yugoslavia)
Moroccan
Moroccan (Netherlands)
Native American (Canada)
Native American (USA)
New Zealand
North African (France)
North American (USA)
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Portuguese
Russian
Samburu tribal (Kenya)
Shelmikedmu (fantasy)
Sikh (UK)
Southern States (USA)
Spanish
Swedish
Swiss
Thai
Tibetan
Turkish
Turkish (Germany)
Ugandan
Vietnamese
Vietnamese-American (USA)
Voodoo culture (USA)
West African (France)
White Southern African
Yugoslav
Zamunda (fantasy)

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individualism/collectivism
communication style: high/low context
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long- vs. short-term orientation
masculinity/femininity
power distance
proxemics (space and distance orientation)
human nature (trust)
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formality
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miscellaneous

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Kyra Sedgwick
Frank Oladeinde
Klaus Fenzl
El Hadji Malick Cisse
Jan Rubes
Aarya Babbar
Antonia Pemberton
Richard Wilson
Caroline Aaron
Mario Adorf
Shohreh Aghdashloo
Jenny Agutter
Zahra Ahmadi
Riz Ahmed
Lalita Ahmed
Shamshad Akhtar
Mohamed Akhzam
Cem Akin
Melinda Allen
Tim Allen
Trini Alvarado
Syed Alwi
John Amos
Vass Anderson
Gillian Anderson
Pamela Anderson
Boris Aquier
Julian Arahanga
Fernando Arau
Asia Argento
Yareli Arizmendi
Peggy Ashcroft
Nao Asuka
Jean-Pierre Aumont
Ghizala Avan
Shabana Akhtar Bakhsh
Christian Bale
Resh Ballam
Victor Banerjee
Lino Banfi
Isaach De Bankolé
Adriana Barraza
Jacinda Barrett
Sylvia Barter
Asif Basra
Linda Bassett
Alan Bates
Bayaertu
Adam Beach
Maria Beck
Kuno Becker
Naeema Begum
Saïda Bekkouche
Roberto Benigni
Salah Eddine Benmoussa
Martin Benson
Helmut Berger
Gael García Bernal
Halle Berry
Siria Betti
Eva Birthistle
Summer Bishil
Kevin Bishop
Jacqueline Bisset
Irina Björklund
Cate Blanchett
Lothaire Bluteau
Paolo Bonacelli
Connie Booth
Kader Boukhanef
Raoul Bova
Petar Božović
Jessica Böhrs
Jesse Bradford
Alice Braga
Rachida Brakni
Kenneth Branagh
Derrick Branche
Marlon Brando
Maria Britneva
Cristina Brondo
Shelbie Bruce
Yul Brynner
Sandra Bullock
Red Buttons
Gabriel Byrne
Boubker Ait El Caid
Michael Caine
Simon Callow
Neve Campbell
Chi Cao
Kate Capshaw
Christopher Carley
Tia Carrere
Helena Bonham Carter
Amira Casar
Jesus Castanos-Chima
Peter Cellier
Richard Chamberlain
Ameet Chana
Rosalind Chao
Winston Chao
Tannishtha Chatterjee
Don Cheadle
Lynn Chen
Joan Chen
May Chin
Tsai Chin
Kieu Chinh
Justin Chon
Yun-Fat Chow
John Cleese
George Clooney
Lee J. Cobb
Sasha Baron Cohen
Jennifer Connelly
Sean Connery
Billy Connolly
Michael Constantine
Kirsten Cooke
Chris Cooper
John Corbett
Valentina Cortese
Kevin Costner
James Cromwell
Tom Cruise
J. R. Cruz
Michael Culver
Meltem Cumbul
Jamie Lee Curtis
Cliff Curtis
John Cusack
Federico d'Anna
William Dafoe
Béatrice Dalle
Matt Damon
Linda Darnell
Claude Dauphin
Eileen Davies
Judy Davis
Ken Davitian
Daniel Day-Lewis
Judi Dench
Ayesha Dharker
Stephen Dillane
Michael Douglas
Fabia Drake
Richard Dreyfuss
Lindsay Duncan
Irene Dunne
Romain Duris
Laure Duthilleul
Clint Eastwood
Karoline Eckertz
Stan Egi
Ron Eldard
Tara Elders
Jenna Elfman
Denholm Elliott
Hannelore Elsner
Taungaroa Emile
Clint Eruera
Giancarlo Esposito
Alice Eve
Sergio Falasca
Elle Fanning
Fares Fares
Anna Faris
Colin Farrell
Faye Yu (Yu Feihong)
Tom Felton
Charlotte Fich
Sally Field
Florian David Fitz
Maureen Flannigan
Katja Flint
Harrison Ford
Sara Foster
Jodie Foster
James Fox
Cécile de France
Brendan Fraser
Anna Friel
Takashi Fujii
Mira Furlan
Nathan Gamble
Andy Garcia
Jesse Garcia
Megan Gay
Claudia Gerini
Winston Gerschtanowitz
John Getz
Vida Ghahremani
Mel Gibson
Patrick Godfrey
Judith Godrèche
Alexander Godunov
Chalo Gonzalez
Evelina Gori
Vladimir Gostyukhin
Rodney Grant
Rupert Graves
Graham Greene
Bruce Greenwood
Ah Lei Gua
Jagannath Guha
Giovanni Guidelli
Alec Guinness
David Gulpilil
Araceli Guzman-Rico
Lukas Haas
Mathias Habich
Gene Hackman
Arsenio Hall
Akihiro Hamano
Josh Hamilton
Tom Hanks
Touriya Haoud
Masato Harada
Richard Harris
Rex Harrison
Lindsey Haun
Nigel Havers
Ethan Hawke
Fumihiro Hayashi
Salma Hayek
Dennis Haysbert
Shari Headley
Thomas Heinze
Joan Henley
Paw Henriksen
Bjarne Henriksen
Ahney Her
Barbara Hershey
Sandrine Holt
Nina Hoss
Linda Hunt
Sam Huntington
Henry Hübchen
Jacky Ido
Samuel L. Jackson
Saeed Jaffrey
Madhur Jaffrey
Jamyangn Jamthso
Barbara Jefford
Richard Jenkins
Scarlett Johansson
Penny Johnson
Catherine Zeta- Jones
James Earl Jones
Rachel Morris Jr,
Ashley Judd
Hakeem Kae-Kazim
Milutin Karadžić
Satish Kaushik
Gordon Kaye
Michael Keaton
Lila Kedrova
Harvey Keitel
Sibel Kekilli
Deborah Kerr
Bill Kerr
Mamaengaroa Kerr-Bell
Sarita Khajuria
Irfan Khan
Anupham Kher
Rinko Kichuchi
Q´Orianka Kilcher
Ben Kingsley
Güven Kirac
Kevin Kline
Keira Knightley
Renu Kochar
Guang Lan Koh
Ariane Koizumi
Ines Kotman
Juliane Köhler
Jeroen Krabbe
Horst Krause
Kristin Kreuk
Anda Kristiansen
David Kross
Michelle Krusiec
Youki Kudoh
Sophie Kullmann
Sakari Kuosmanen
Lea Kurka
Frank Lammers
Diane Lane
Jude Law
Luca Lazzareschi
Rosemary Leach
Cloris Leachman
Spike Lee
Anna Lelio
Tea Leoni
Albee Lesotho
Jean-Pierre Léaud
Mitchell Lichtenstein
John Light
Carl Michael Lindner
Bai Ling
Ray Liotta
Miguel de Lira
John Lone
Lisa Lu
Florian Lukas
Carl Lumbly
Sihung Lung
Rasmus Lyberth
Pavel (Pasha) Lychnikoff
Richard Lyon
Natasha Lyonne
Brifget Maasland
Kyle MacLachlan
Mako
Richard Marner
Rémi Martin
Yasuka Matsuda
Jodhi May
James McAvoy
Simon McBurney
Matthew McConaughey
Mary McDonnell
Kelly McGillis
Lonnette McKee
Scott Mechlowicz
Jesse Metcalfe
Barnaby Metschurat
Toshiro Mifune
Larry Miller
Ming-Na
Helen Mirren
Jimi Mistry
Alfred Molina
Giorgia Moll
Laura Monaghan
Mario Monicelli
Rita Moreno
Temuera Morrison
Denis Moschitto
Jesse Moss
Armin Mueller-Stahl
Michael Murphy
Eddie Murphy
Audie Murphy
Bill Murray
Karl-Fred Müller
Katharina Müller-Elmau
Linda Mvusi
N!xau
Parminder Nagra
Shichinosuke Nakamura
Vivi Nielsen
Satoshi Nikaido
Merab Ninidze
Kazunari Ninomiya
Alessandro Nivola
Roberto Nobile
Nick Nolte
Alain Noury
Kayvan Novak
Tuva Novotny
Frances Nuyen
Henry O
Peter O'Toole
Mimoun Oaissa
Sandra Oh
Illias Ojja
Sophie Okonedo
Sidede Onyulo
Julia Ormond
Rena Owen
Patricia Owens
Christian Pagh
Jack Palance
Michael Palin
Eduardo Palomo
Archie Panjabi
Irene Papas
Valentine Pelka
Matti Pellonpää
Jetsun Pema
Kal Penn
Rosie Perez
Matthew Perry
Knud Peterson
Torkel Petersson
Ryan Phillippe
Joaquin Phoenix
Brad Pitt
Jacob Pitts
Tony Plana
Christopher Plummer
Sidney Poitier
CCH Pounder
Laleh Pourkarim
Antonio Prester
Sandra Prinsloo
Om Puri
Anthony Quinn
Mustapha Rachidi
Lana Rahman
Shy Ramsan
Kenneth Rasmussen
James Rebhorn
Michael Redgrave
Kelly Reilly
Jean Reno
John Rhys-Davies
Jonathan Rhys-Meyers
Ahmad Riaz
Giovanni Ribisi
Janek Rieke
Emily Rios
Vincent Riotta
Victor Rivers
Zuleikha Robinson
Luc Roeg
Mimi Rogers
Sheila Rosenthal
David W. Ross
Mickey Rourke
Gena Rowlands
Mercedes Ruehl
Winona Ryder
Frankie Sakai
Apinya Sakuljaroensuk
Tomi Salmela
Udo Samel
Everlyn Sampi
Adam Sandler
Julian Sands
Tianna Sansbury
Shriya Saran
Massimo Sarchielli
Katrin Saß
Marianne Sägebrecht
August Schellenberg
Peter Scherer
Michael Schreiner
Annabella Sciorra
Zohra Segal
Omar Sharif
Tara Sharma
Sam Shepard
Yoko Shimada
Martin Short
Alexander Siddig
Carmen Silvera
Shadia Simmons
Christopher Simpson
Magde Sinclair
Alicia Sixtos
Zohra Slimani
Matt Smith
Maggie Smith
Wesley Snipes
Josef Sommer
Hilmi Sözer
Kevin Spacey
Rod Steiger
Giulia Steigerwalt
Mary Stockley
Catrin Striebeck
Wes Studi
Jim Sturgess
David Suchet
Max von Sydow
Pawel Szajda
Tabu
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
Miiko Taka
Ken Takakare
Mina Tander
Said Tarchani
Audrey Tautou
Mandala Tayde
David Thewlis
Henry Thomas
Damien Thomas
Jack Thompson
Rex Thomson
Lauren Tom
Tamlyn Tomita
Lily Tomlin
Michelle Trachtenberg
François Truffaut
Nora Tschirner
Luidmila Tsvetkova
Stanley Tucci
John Turturro
Christian Ulmen
Myoshi Umeki
Birol Ünel
Bee Vang
Nia Vardalos
Kari Väänänen
Paz Vega
Saskia Vester
Manjinder Virk
Kim Vithana
Jürgen Vogel
Sasa Vulicevic
Mark Wahlberg
Amr Waked
Amanda Walker
Jin Wang
Wangchuk
Gorden Warnecke
Kerry Washington
Ken Watanabe
Gedde Watanabe
Muse Watson
Sigourney Weaver
George Wendt
Celia Weston
Marius Weyers
Thomas Wheatley
Forest Whitaker
Chinna Wodu
Rita Wolf
B.D. Wong
Jason L. Wood
Jeffrey Wright
Lin Kun Wu
Vivian Wu
Koji Yakusho
Sô Yamamura
Atta Yaqub
Do Thi Hai Yen
Erdal Yildiz
Aden Young
Ric Young
Diamond Yukai
Chow Yun-Fat
Rick Yune
Anita Zagaria
Marie Zielcke

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Bruce Beresford
Percy Adlon
Fatih Akin
Jean-Jacques Annaud
Sergio Arau
Bille August
James L. Brooks
Detlev Buck
Michael Cacoyannis
Danny Cannon
Robin Carr
Gurinder Chadha
Mehdi Charef
Larry Charles
Michael Chauvistré
Michael Cimino
Sofia Coppola
Kevin Costner
Charles Crichton
David Croft
John Cromwell
James Dodson
Clint Eastwood
Josef Fares
James Foley
Steven Frears
Steven Gaghan
Tony Gatlif
Sarah Gavron
Henrik Ruben Genz
Terry George
Brian Gilbert
Richard Glatzer
Theo Van Gogh
Jacob Grønlykke
Albert ter Heerdt
Scott Hicks
Todd Holland
Stefan Holtz
Kevin Hooks
Ron Howard
Hermine Huntgeburth
John Huston
Alejandro González Iñárritu
James Ivory
Jim Jarmusch
John Jeffcoat
Norman Jewison
Philip Kaufman
Mika Kaurismäki
Cédric Klapisch
Peter Kosminsky
Wayne Kramer
John Landis
Walter Lang
David Lean
Spike Lee
Ang Lee
Dani Levy
Caroline Link
Ken Loach
Joshua Logan
Jerry London
Kevin MacDonald
Terrence Malick
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Chris Menges
Nikita Mikhalkov
Ian Mune
Mira Nair
Živko Nikolić
Phillip Noyce
Damien O'Donnell
Alan Parker
John Pasquin
Vadim Perelman
Tristram Powell
Nicolas Roeg
Vic Sarin
Anno Saul
Jeff Schaffer
Michael Schorr
Joel Schumacher
Ridley Scott
Steven Spielberg
Hannes Stöhr
Charles Sturridge
Lee Tamahori
Andy Tennant
François Truffaut
Jamie Uys
Neele Vollmar
Torsten Wacker
Wayne Wang
Philipp Weinges
Peter Weir
Audrey Wells
Wash Westmoreland
Walter Wippersberg
Alice Wu
Joel Zwick
Edward Zwick