ABSTRACT
The process through which we try to understand other people and ourselves is called social perception. It is an established view in psychology that people acquire judgments, attitudes, and beliefs through socialization experiences from their cultural milieu. If perception is influenced by experience, then there should be commonalities and differences in social perception. People who grow up in similar environments may learn to interpret many elements of this environment in a similar way. People who were exposed to different stimuli are likely to see the world from divergent perspectives. Despite differences in educational systems, studies show that people tend to see some global events similarly: The world wars, especially World War II, and Hitler continued to be considered across cultures as the most important events and figure, respectively, in world history (Liu et al., 2009).
