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According to Merriam Webster, Cultural conflict is the conflict of
behaviour patterns and values that the results when different cultures

are incompletely assimilated[1]. A cultural conflict is a dislike,

hostility, or struggle between communities who have different

philosophies and ways of living, resulting in contradictory aspirations

and behaviours. The notion originates from sociological conflict
theories and anthropological concepts of intercultural relations. In

terms of Culture, conflict relates to inharmonious or contradictory

norms, values, priorities and motives.

According to Avruch, by definition, conflict occurring between

individuals or social groups that are separated by cultural boundaries

can be considered “cross-cultural conflict”. But individuals, even in the
same society, are potentially members of many different groups,

organized in different ways by different criteria: for example, by

kinship into families or clans; by language, religion, ethnicity, or

nationality; by socioeconomic characteristics into social classes; by

geographical region into political interest groups; and by education,
occupation, or institutional memberships into professions, trade

unions, organizations, industries, bureaucracies, political parties, or

militaries. Avruch added that the more complex and differentiated the

society the more numerous are potential groupings. Each of these

groups is a potential “container” for cultures, and thus any complex