However earnest, such efforts always end up being a narrow perspective which when successful becomes even more dangerous as then the one persons stereotype becomes an 'accepted fact' (case in point the Indian head nod references, What!)

The only way to do this would be to avoid being your culture centric and wherever you go start with respect for that culture and then open your eyes, ears and mind as the first step

During business visits to Europe, I have had Indian colleagues who cringed up their faces short of vomiting at the sight of a rare beef steak and have had European colleagues come and track down that 'cow on the road photo shoot' as their first biz agenda.

Now that is not the right start and it does not need a book to tell you that you have to respect others way of life.