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Probably my right arm, but I don't think this can be a cultural indicator unless there are countries in which this behavior is explicitly taught or modeled, which it is definitely not in the Western world.
Other than determining handedness, the directions right and left are not particularly significant to a small child's life. Up or down is significant. Back or front is significant. Right and left is not. Consider how many children start out by writing letters backwards, because whether something is facing right or left makes no difference to what it is.
If most people put on their clothes right arm, leg or foot first, it is probably because most people are right handed.
Women dressing (in western clothing) hold the button in their left hand, men in their right. Do they also put the left hand in the sleeve first?
No. The reason buttons are on opposite sides of women's and men's clothing is historical. It has nothing to do with anything else having to with dressing.
I tried to think hard about it, and I am sure I don't prefer any arm. (I also use both hands when doing things, incl. writing.) So, sometimes I put in right first, sometimes left.
Non-American.
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