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Consider how effectively the one from a competitive egoistic culture subsumes the other in the following dialogue. The one from another culture speaks of something that they do not know, but this is turned into a claim of superiority in the mind of the individualistic thinker:

"I come from a different culture. I don't know your ways."

"What makes you so special that you choose to stand out from others?"

"I don't know what you mean by 'special'. I don't know your ways."

"You're trying to say you're better than us!"

"How can I be better? What does it even mean?! I don't know your ways."

"You're demonstrating your individualism in a defiant way by choosing not to know things!"

"What things!? I don't know your ways."

"You are an individual who thinks they are superior."

"I didn't say that."

But, the cultural egoist won't hear of any  'not knowing'.

The cultural egoist instead demands (according to the logic of his matrix) that the cultural outsider should "take responsibility" for what she or he hadn't originally chosen: that is, to take responsibility for his inability to understand the cultural egoist's culture.  The cultural outsider is therefore stymied by the complexity and blame-inducing logic of this cultural egoist thought.

 The cultural egoist  wants the outsider to believe that her actual innocent lack of knowledge is really just a sneaky way for him (the outsider) to stake his claim to be someone superior. So, the outsider learns from this that she or he ought to express their thoughts only after considering what would logically make sense to a cultural egoist.  Once this has happened, the outsider has been swallowed whole by the egoist's cultural notions!

Once she or he has been eaten  entirely, the outsider, now something of a forced insider, finally understands that it is important to reformulate their thoughts and ideas to comply with narrow cultural egoistic conceptions about themselves and others.