Cultural self-training

The company I work for has had an E-learning centre set up for about 3 years now. Anyone with the time to take a course can sign up to learn a wide variety of topics such as Advanced-Excel spreadsheets, Business Writing fundamentals and Learning new Cultures.

The last one that I listed is the course I am currently taking. I wanted to share some quotes with you from it, to see the type of work culture we are building:

"culture is conditioning that results in unshakable core beliefs"

"Spaniards think the Swiss are too law-abiding and stuffy"

"Arabians...promote and hire family members, favour business through acquaintances and think...'Who you know is everything".

Now, some of these are interesting while some sound almost scary without trying to read too much into them even. I know that there is truth in stereotypes to some extent but when you then quiz someone on stereotypes, but word it; 'Someone from France thinks this:' I think you are losing the point.