Links that are informative about the culture surrounding Paul.

http://teampyro.blogspot.com/2008/04/paul-and-culture.html
Certainly the New Testament does not teach "cultural assimilation."

http://www.scribd.com/doc/2928585/Apostle-Paul

http://www.wlsessays.net/files/WendlandCulture.pdf

http://www.the-highway.com/articleDec99.html

http://www.biblicalstudies.com/bstudy/ecclesiology/Church/11.htm

http://kingwatch.co.nz/Church_Ministry/spiritual_protection.htm

http://www.becomingcloser.org/Submission.htm