  This paper presents a method for understanding personal ways of thinking and
doing in daily lives among different countries by mining their ways as patterns
in a sense of pattern language. Pattern language is a methodology of describing
tacit practical knowledge, where each pattern consists of context, problem, and
solution. In this paper, patterns mined from the workshops we held in the
following three countries: Japan, Korea, and the United States, are analysed.
The results demonstrate similarities and reflect characteristics of the
patterns of each country. We anticipate that this workshop can be used as a
method for better understanding of cultural similarities and features in the
light of practical knowledge in daily lives.
