Realo (2003) raises the interesting point that the opinions about a culture by culture `experts' may or may not correspond to the beliefs about that same culture held by people of that culture. In this commentary I argue that the discrepancy between consensual- and individual-level cultures is itself an important aspect of culture that has heretofore not received the recognition it deserves.
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