American Values and Assumptions
American values and assumptions are different than eastern ones. If we talk about food, it is different that eastern people use.
From the nutrients values, American are aware of food that contains nutrients values for our body. They always look for healthy food items. Beside that they use flour based food items. On the other hand, eastern people use more rice made food items that contains carbohydrate.
Let's observe the food items of Indian food. Rice is centered or focused on priority. More than that Indian food contains more specie and oil as well as salt. Above mention examples proves that American are different than eastern people in food habit.

While we talk about individualism, American are taught as unit, but, eastern are taught as unity.
Among the eastern culture, once let's observe Nepalese one.
Thus, American values and assumptions are different than the eastern ones.