Conflict is always cultural.
Our main goal in looking at conflict across cultures is to help illuminate the cultural patterns that shape our own approaches to conflict and its resolution. This seems to ignore how much individuals differ one from the next. Many US Americans have grown up in a culture which values individual will, independence, and initiative. We shy away from thinking of ourselves as strongly influenced by larger social systems or cultural patterns. Culture as anthropologists talk about it is not a fixed script that every person follows.