Culture has been defined as the man-made part of the environment that consists of both
subjective and objective elements and resides in the mind of individuals as well as in their
environmental context. Cross-cultural psychology is deeply rooted in Western traditions of
thinking and ethnocentric Euro-American approaches have shaped the landscape of crosscultural
research in the last five decades accordingly. The integration of findings from non-
Western societies presented by indigenous psychology needs to be emphasised to widen the
range of awareness in cross-cultural psychology