Cultural Scripts and Routines are a source for expectancies.
There we would sit starving—but ironically, we are surrounded by an endless multitude of little nuggets of protein!
I (as a result of my culture do not see them). Instead, I see filthy disgusting little cockroaches.
Papillon somehow breaks his cultural bias and eats them readily, survives the six months and later escapes prison to resume his life in France, and wreak vengeance by exposing the cruelty of the prison.
I on the other hand would have starved to death in the midst of an abundance of food I could not recognize or accept.
So strong can the cultural bias be that we can perish because of it.
Cultural Scripts and Routines: There are thousands of scripts and routines in our culture that we are not aware of.
For example, if I go into a 7-11 store late at night and pull a gun out of my pocket, you can be pretty sure what is going to happen next.