Culture shapes our cognitions and may also proneness for several emotions in many ways. For cultural influences on morality for instance, I strongly recommend the readings of Jonathan Haidt, in particular Graham et al., 2011 (mapping the moral domain), Graham et al., 2013 (book chapter on the moral foundations theory... find it on Grahams Homepage); and Haidt, 2012 (the book the righous mind).
I recommend Nisbet et al (2001) "Culture and Systems of Thought: Holistic Versus Analytic Cognition" - it argues for coarse grained differences between Western and East Asian perceptual and attentional cognitive porcessing