ABSTRACT
The study of culture and personality, as well as their interactions, has been of much interest in the fields of psychology, anthropology, and cross-cultural psychology. As aptly stated by Lonner and Adamopoulos (1997), the basic idea is that one’s personality and culture are inextricably intertwined. As Suarez-Orozco, Spindler, and Spindler (1994) pointed out, the phenomenological, existential conception of the relation among human minds, environment, and culture has probably been a preoccupation of intellectuals for centuries and probably since the first stirrings of human consciousness.
