This review of the literature on incorporating culture into English language teaching aims not only to revisit the need for intercultural awareness, which focuses on understanding the differences between cultures and appreciating them, but also to highlight the importance of foregrounding and endorsing similarities and commonalities, which can be found among different cultures. This will bring the students in a multicultural English language classroom closer when they realize how cultures can also be similar in certain aspects. Similar to the widely used term of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), this paper uses the term "cultura franca" to refer to the common grounds upon, which many cultures meet according to the recently published study of anthropologists Curry et al. (2019). Although the interpretations of the cultural behaviors or norms can differ from one culture to another, the core of these behaviors or norms are the same. Knowing that we as humans share a number of values, regardless of the cultural background we come from, is important to overcome our fear of the Other, of the person who is different.