That said, even after all my experience working around the world, I still have a habit of making cultural faux pas. Example: I recently asked a Chinese business associate how many children he had. This was an insensitive blunder on my part, since I knew that the government limits members of the ethnic Han majority to have only one child. My own mistake motivated me to compile this list of country by country observations, that will hopefully help others when they do business with people from other countries.