I think immigrants with deeper understanding of their traditional values and ethics from their origin country have to think more to answer the questions from Cultural Diversity exercise.
In real life situations, I think that people judgement is based on awareness of consequences in the living country, but not based on what they believe in their own culture.
I am not surprised to see 93% of USA repondents answering "C" for The car and pedestrian scenario, but I a really surprised to see 65% respondents only for bad restaurant survey, I thought that USA would be around 80% range.
While our original culture often dictates our deepest beliefs, I think our current work/life culture affects our behavior disproportionally - possibly because we generally have short memory. For example, people often say that movies which are playing closer to the Oscar award time have a higher chance of winning the award.
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