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‘No man is an island.’ Our values, our attitudes, and our customs derive from our interaction with others and, more generally, from social milieus and our society. Yet milieus and societies differ vastly, and ‘proper’ behavior in one context may be seen as ‘strange’ and even ‘uncivilized’ in another.