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interested in cross-cultural psychology
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because there are plain differences across cultures.
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So, the anthropologist Richard Shweder gives a list here of human differences:
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People have found it quite natural to be spontaneously appalled, outraged,
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indignant, proud, disgusted, guilty and ashamed by all sorts of things.
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Then there's a long list: "Masturbation, homosexuality, sexual abstinence,
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polygamy, abortion, circumcision, corporal punishment, capital punishment,Islam,
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Christianity, Judaism, capitalism, democracy, flag burning,
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miniskirts, long hair, no hair,
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blah blah, parents and children sleeping in the same bed,
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parents and children not sleeping in the same bed, women being allowed to work,
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women not being allowed to work."