The author finds Roland S. Persson's (2012a) paper to be timely, fascinating, important and powerful. At risk of mixing metaphors, it provides much food for thought and a penetrating lens through which all those vested in the optimal realisation of human potential would be prudent to review their own perceptions, boundaries of belief and understanding. The use of the word "superculture" implies the U. S. is not only superior, or powerful in some way, but also culturally unified. Persson (2012a) posits, "It is paramount to be aware of one's own cultural bias, its dynamics, and constituents, to understand the make-up of other cultures' value systems relevant to a certain research project, and to compare several cultural settings along a number of dimensions prior to generalising findings appropriately." The author agrees with his caution. In fact it is this very concern that contributes to the author's opinion that notions of giftedness, the gifted and talented children themselves and assumptions regarding how their needs are serviced in the United States, are as negatively impacted by the vagaries of this "superculture" as any other country. Consequently, he suspects such a circumstance contributes to the loss of credibility and compromised research validity proposed by Persson (2012a). The author concludes that Persson's (2012a) essay has prompted many thoughts and potential responses, far too many to catalogue or discuss in this commentary.