Is adult learning impacted by their culture or need to learn new practices?
Definitely. Geert Hofstede pioneered much of the field of cultural dimensions / cultural differences. A classic paper of his discusses how cultural differences influence teaching and learning interactions - it's not written exactly in terms of adult learning, but a lot of the ideas can be applied to adult learning contexts:
Hofstede, G. (1986). Cultural differences in teaching and learning. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 10(3), 301-320.
Hopefully you'll be able to access that through your university library. If not, there's also an open access paper on his website (although not written by Hofstede himself) that discusses similar points.
http://geert-hofstede.com/tl_files/images/site/social/Culture%20and%20education.pdf
Though not very relevant to your question, but the following study highlights cross-cultural impacts on computer based test. Perhaps you might gain some insight into how learning preferences vary owing to culture.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877050915004160
In my opinion, culture understood in it's traditional construction, is not the most influental factor of learning. Rather, learning should be analysed from the perspective of learning theories which include socially situated learning and relational learning as some of the top learning theories. Consult Bruner, Vygotsky, Lave/Wenger and Bronfenbrenner. The latter for soio-ecological development theories is very helpful when considering environmental factors fo learning. Learning is a very complexe subject and should in no case be reduced to one factor. Also, traditional understanding of "culture" would not be helpful for processes that are to a large part influence by indivudual factors such as self-concepts, social ressources, opportunities and chances etc. Traditional concepts of culture use methodological nationalism as analytical framework which would be the wrong mode of thinking as it is too generalizing.
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