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152 DIMENSIONS OF NATIONAL CULTURES

FIGURE 5.4 Power Distance Versus Masculinity

5
Sweden
Norway Latvia
Netherlands
15
Denmark
Lithuania Slovenia
feminine 25 Finland
Costa Rica
Chile
Estonia
Portugal
Vietnam, Bulgaria
Thailand
35 Russia
Uruguay El Salvador Guatemala
S Korea Croatia Suriname
Africa E
Romania
Spain Peru Belgium Nl Africa W Serbia Panama
France
Iran
Masculinity (MAS) Israel Canada total Malta Taiwan Turkey Singapore Malaysia
45
Canada Quebec
Indonesia
Brazil
Luxembourg
Morocco
Pakistan
Arab ctrs
Greece
55
New Zealand Argentina Czech Rep. India Bangladesh
Trinidad Hong Kong Switzerland Fr
Australia Belgium Fr
S Africa
United States Ecuador Philippines
65 Great Britain, Germany Colombia Poland
China
Jamaica
Ireland Mexico
Italy
Switzerland Ge
Venezuela
75
masculine Austria
85
Hungary
95 Japan
Slovakia
10 30 50 70 90 110
small Power Distance (PDI) large
selves and girls should please and be pleased. Boys don’t cry and should
fight back when attacked; girls may cry and don’t fi ght.

Finally, in the upper left-hand quadrant (equal and tender), the norm
is for mothers and fathers not to dominate and for them both to be con-
cerned with relationships, with the quality of life, with facts, and with feel-