American cultural norms

Garcia, J., "African-American Perspectives, Cultural Relativism and Normative Issues Some Conceptual Questions.," In H.F. Flack and E. Pellegrino (eds.), African-American Perspectives on Biomedical Ethics. Washington, DC Georgetown University Press, pp. 11-66 (1992). 

Consensus trance induction is a process of shaping the behavior and the consciousness of the baby, the subject, to be normal, to ensure that there is a high level of standardization of behavior and consciousness in all people so they fit social norms. To be American, you must speak good English, you must have reasonably polite manners of the kind peculiar to your culture, you must look both ways before crossing the street, you must respect your parents and teachers, respect the American flag, you must etc., etc., etc.—add your favorite five thousand beliefs and attitudes here. 

Merton, P, Froyd, J., Clark, M. C. (2004). Challenging the norm in engineering education Understanding organizational culture and curricular change. In Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference Exposition. ASEE. 

There are many technological rules (failure mode and protection mode hypothesis), but although normative, these railway environment rules ate not applied equally between the north and south of Europe or even across the Atlantic". Consequently, an architecture whose safety level is accepted in Germany, will not necessarily be accepted in France, and a product developed according to safety rules for the French market will require one or more modifications to meet North American standards. 1 can assure you there is also inconsistency in the opposite direction. Cross-acceptance by the authorities of technological benchmarks specific to each country is pitted against safety culture dogma. 

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