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This paper explores the cultural implications in ontology engineering. It focuses more particularly on collaborative design. Hypotheses are formulated concerning the influence of cultural differences in the definition of ontology, its conceptual organisation and the design process. A preliminary analysis conducted on six well known collaborative systems confirms some of the findings. We argue that a "culture aware" attitude may be of great importance for the development of systems (e.g. web services) that, more or less implicitly, adopt ontologies and for supporting the processes of cross cultural collaborative design.