` :::Here we go: Kohlberg's stages are not culturally neutral; people in other cultures do in fact progress through the stages in order, but they seem to do so at different rates.[20] In order to test this, his theory of moral development has been applied to a number of different cultures.[1] ``Kohlberg's response is that different cultures do teach different beliefs, but that his stages refer not to specific beliefs but to underlying modes of reasoning``. [1][21]   `