Learning styles can be greatly influenced by how a culture socializes with its children and young people.

Cross-cultural research in the past fifty years has primarily focused on differences between Eastern and Western cultures.

[2] These environmental differences include climate, migration patterns, war, agricultural suitability, and endemic pathogens.

[5] The immaturity of dentition and the digestive system, the time required for growth of the brain, and the rapid skeletal growth needed for the young to reach adult height and strength mean that children have special digestive needs and are dependent on adults for a long period of time.

The basis of cultural learning is based on; people create, remember, and deal with ideas.

Cultural differences have been found in academic motivation, achievement, learning style,[7] conformity, and compliance.

Cass Sunstein described in 2007 how Wikipedia moves us past the rigid limits of socialist planning that Friedrich Hayek attacked on the grounds that "no planner could possibly obtain the dispersed bits of information held by individual members of society.

"[10] An example of cultural transmission can be seen in post-World War II Japan during the American occupation of the country.