I don't believe that cultural influences are as significant as some may make out. There are plenty of examples of aircraft being allowed to fly themselves into the ground while the crew busied themselves about a set of baffling indications.
What were the cultural aspects of the crew (a 3 crew aircraft too) who allowed their aircraft to fly itself into the Everglades while they messed about trying to fix a landing gear green light? Then there was the B757 that crashed into the sea because the crew were baffled by a pitot-static problem? Another crew, another place and the captain flew the aircraft to a successful landing using the right power settings for aircraft configuration and each flap setting.
A captain barrel-rolled his 747 into the sea while trying to follow a failed ADI indication at night.
I could go on, there are dozens of similar examples, but it is a fact that when distracted by indications that they have never encountered before, human beings become fixated on the anomaly and abandon attempts to monitor other events. It is a Human Factors or basic psychology issue based upon the many millenia of evolution of our species and it cannot simply be written off as a training shortfall, a character flaw or as a 'cultural thing'.