These principals are not culture specific and can be utilized under all interpersonal and organizational conditions to enhance the quality of the interpersonal interaction and organizational climate management.
All assumptions are cultural.
We are cultural beings heavily influenced by the general cultural tendencies to view the world and judge it in specific ways that are learned over a lifetime, implicitly and explicitly. We tend to consider our own views as the right, the only, and the absolute way of experiencing and processing the world around us. In an intercultural encounter these assumptions may lead to errors of inference and attribution. This would interfere with accurately processing available information that may violate our standard expectations of communication, behavior, and culture. It is necessary to suspend judgement temporarily.