Even the Salt Lake Organizing Committee has been poking fun at our cultural quirks.

Even the occasional financial swindle in the news is regarded, at least by those who are not prosecutors, as more cultural quirk than grave crime.

The Japanese, with their cultural quirk for cuteness, were wild about Fuzzy; he sold more big-eyed Fuzzy soft toys there than anywhere in the world.

The rich and repressive city-state will cry for help to the West, despite our cultural quirks about freedom and human rights.

There are lots of theories out there regarding why some sports catch on and others don t, and there are certainly a lot of cultural quirks involved.

Fifty years ago, Tati had already recognized English as the language of globalization, of the erasure of the cultural quirks and individual eccentricities that were his principal objects of delight.

In Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, the undead are seen less as monsters, and more as characters with unusual cultural quirks.

The book includes break-out texts on many of the cultural quirks of the region including Georgia's history of wine making and Baku's thriving jazz scene.

It is not some cultural quirk but the way to adapt to hostile environments.

Mr. Clark's confusion illustrates the regional diversity of cultural quirks in a country as big as China.