The phrase "culture bound" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe concepts, practices, or beliefs that are specific to a particular culture and may not be applicable or understood in other cultural contexts.
Example: "The study revealed that many psychological theories are culture bound, failing to account for diverse cultural perspectives."
Alternatives: "culturally specific" or "culture-specific".
Kelly talked of a literary culture bound around a nation that itself had "come into being through forms of fiction".
Just as these props are both stereotypical and authentic (and possibly humorous), these episodes are both foreign and familiar, culture bound and globally resonant.
The first, which I saw at Yelp, was creating a strong corporate culture, bound by real relationships, in an industry where the nature of the work, and the tools used to do it, naturally lean toward isolation.
Koro, as a culture bound syndrome is predominantly reported from Asian countries.
The idea was to foster comparative research on humans so that anthropologists and other social scientists could discover which principles and explanations are universally valid, not culture bound.
The metacognitive awareness developed in this way helps students realize that discourse organization is basically a matter of making choices which are inevitably intrinsically culture bound.
On the other hand, the CFI and its associated conceptual material are poorly integrated into the DSM-5 – many diagnoses pay no attention to cultural formulation at all – and the culture-bound syndromes do in fact survive.
DSM-5 has moved away from concept of a culture-bound syndrome and adopted that of "cultural concepts of distress" (p.758).
For some psychologists these cultural differences point to the need for a less culture-bound approach to personality trait theory.
Culture-bound syndromes occur in a limited number of specific societies or cultural areas.
Westerners have their own culture-bound syndromes.
