Réaliser un diagnostic culturel consiste à analyser une culture autre que la sienne pour en comprendre ses spécificités, ses différences et pouvoir l'appréhender correctement. L'exercice du diagnostic culturel est difficile à réaliser efficacement pour trois raisons :
- De par la multitude de notions que regroupe la notion de culture d'un pays ;
- "La culture cache plus de choses qu'elle n'en révèle et, étrangement, ce qu'elle cache c'est à ses membres qu'elle le cache le mieux." Edward Hall. Cette citation met en avant le problème de la théorie de l'iceberg : les manifestations visibles de la culture (comportement des gens, vêtements, le langage...) ne représentent qu'une infime partie de la culture d'un pays.
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- Le piège de l'ethnocentrisme : L'être humain à tendance à comparer et à traduire les moeurs et coutumes des personnes en fonction de ses propres critères (filtres). A partir de là on considère bien souvent sa propre culture comme supérieure.