Oh, I'm very much not saying that Bush represents all of America. My point is that there are divisions within the neo-con ideology, and divisions within American ways of thinking. This president has divided America to an unprecedented degree.
As for Hofstede's methodology on the national rankings, he surveyed the attitudes of IBM workers in 64 national subsidiaries. He quizzed 116,000 workers. Their responses were assigned numerical ratings on each of the 'dimensions', between 0 and 100. All the grades were then averaged out and displayed in the form of national tables. Some have criticised Hofstede's techniques, but many subsequent studies have found his conclusions to be sound. An Introductory Guide To Cross-Cultural Training (http://www.cidaindia.org/Cross-Cultural%20Training.pdf) is quite a good introduction to Hofstede, with a detailed comparison of Indian and Canadian attitudes.
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Date: 2004-10-09 03:18 am (UTC)As for Hofstede's methodology on the national rankings, he surveyed the attitudes of IBM workers in 64 national subsidiaries. He quizzed 116,000 workers. Their responses were assigned numerical ratings on each of the 'dimensions', between 0 and 100. All the grades were then averaged out and displayed in the form of national tables. Some have criticised Hofstede's techniques, but many subsequent studies have found his conclusions to be sound. An Introductory Guide To Cross-Cultural Training (http://www.cidaindia.org/Cross-Cultural%20Training.pdf) is quite a good introduction to Hofstede, with a detailed comparison of Indian and Canadian attitudes.