I agree with we usually selectively expose ourselves to information that on the decision we are making. Because I think we always perceive the information that we are interesting first then we looking for something else. On the other hand, we also not perceive the things that are not interesting or direct to our needs as well. For example, if we only perceive about Thai culture we will selectively expose ourselves know about Thai culture while we are not perceive in other culture. So we don’t know other cultures and we cannot communicate well with others.
I agree with we try to make sense of the patterns by assigning meaning to them but we can interpret meaning in the different ways depend on the personality past experiences or cultural values.
Because of people have the different meaning for define one thing it make we have different cultures and understanding. For example, Kissing in public is common in western but in Thai we think kissing is not suitable to show in public that make we might misunderstanding each other.