Completar frases Culture AVersión en línea Fill in the gaps por Oksana Koval 1 conversations increasingly cultures decades heritage aware greeting shape advanced inappropriate We've all got a deeply rooted cultural which influences the customs and conventions that our lives . And we're all that our culture can be very different from others . What is commonplace in one country ( for example , by shaking hands ) is in another . There are , and there will always be , long - standing conventions that are peculiar to a certain culture , and unheard of , or even frowned upon , in others . However , as the world shrinks , and people are interacting with other nationalities , our conventions and customs are blurring or feeding into and being adopted by other . In addition to this , technology is bringing with it a sea - change in behaviour and convention , which is producing a culture all of its own . Who would ever have thought that it would be the norm to see people sharing a table but conducting various simultaneously on their phones ? And no one raising an eyebrow ! Fascinating , isn't it ? How far will cultures merge or adapt and change over the next few ? That is going to be interesting .