Culture is very important in international affairs, and also something that remains a mystery why many analysts choose to ignore it. Here are some reasons which get most controversial arguments in the social sciences, why people pay little attention to culture. Culture is very difficult to change. Culture does change but gradually and took several decades and even centuries. Therefore, many politicians and academics chose to ignore the culture. A reformer is in a hurry to change this, it has been rather not hear about the persistence of the culture, how hard it is to change, perseverance over the years and decades. Culture is often seen as the enemy changes; many reformers, then, choose to ignore.
Culture can be understood as a concept that most elusive but also the most easily understood in the social sciences. It is easy to understand because we all had the experience of interacting with someone where the background is leading them to do and say things that seemed surprising and unexpected. The elusiveness of culture becomes apparent when one attempts to define it in a theoretical sense. The difficulty is not so much centered on what should be include in such a definition, but rather what should be exclude. This cultural fluidity echoed in the definition that covers everything but pithy definitions of culture found in the social science literature: for example culture is the “human-made part of the environment” (Herskovits, 1955), culture is “the software of mind”