Can Social Mapping Explain Relationships Between Cultures?

If you look at the U.S., Canada is culturally similar, as is Australia.If you look at China, Vietnam and South Korea are quite culturallysimilar. The point, though, is that the world, culturally, doesn’t golinearly from the U.S. to whatever the endpoint is—Egypt, in this case.Those countries in between the U.S. and Egypt are not similar to eachother because they fall in between them. – Nautilus