philipat;
Re, "I think that cutting through the cultural biases remains one of the largest challenges."
Yes, I think that is a realistic statement which is the reason I was careful to describe "breeding and manners" as a "1950's western culture" notion. That acknowledges that cultural biases exist, "the west" being no different.
You're right also about the context of this diversion (while we wait for anything new from the NTSC, etc) into CRM issues being philosophical and that is the way I understood it.
In fact it is not possible to connect "CRM issues" to Lion Air in this instance because we know absolutely nothing about what was said in the cockpit and what the flight data is.
PJ2