Is it culture dependent? Is it because in English we read left to right?

There was a glorious moment when I thought that the Chinese models were more likely to produce right-to-left cycling pelicans, but sadly that trend didn't seem to hold up.

	▲	BeetleB an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		For almost the last 70 years, Chinese has been left to right. Before that it was vertical (although the ordering of the columns was right to left).
	▲	valleyer 6 minutes ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Arabic or Hebrew would be better tests for that.
	▲	CorrectHorseBat an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Chinese is also written left to right