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214 DIMENSIONS OF NATIONAL CULTURES

FIGURE 6.1 Masculinity Versus Uncertainty Avoidance

5
Singapore
Jamaica

Denmark
weak 25 Hong Kong
Sweden
Vietnam China
Great Britain Ireland
Malaysia
India
Philippines
45
Canada total United States
Indonesia Zealand Australia Slovakia
Uncertainty Avoidance (UAI) 65 Latvia Finland Estonia Iran Morocco, Germany
S Africa
Norway
New
Africa E
Netherlands
Africa W
Trinidad
Switzerland Ge
Bangladesh
Canada Quebec
Arab ctrs
Thailand
Lithuania
Ecuador
Taiwan
Switzerland Fr
Pakistan,
Luxembourg Czech Rep. Austria
Brazil Italy Venezuela
Croatia Colombia
Spain Israel Mexico Hungary
Bulgaria
S Korea
85 Costa Rica Turkey Argentina
Panama
Chile Peru France
Romania
Slovenia Suriname Belgium Fr Japan
Serbia
strong Russia El Salvador Poland
Malta
Uruguay Belgium Nl
Guatemala
105
Portugal
Greece
5 25 45 65 85
feminine Masculinity (MAS) masculine
countries. He distinguished three types of motives: achievement, affi liation
(associating with other people), and power. The strength of each motive
for each country was measured through a content analysis of the stories
appearing in children’s readers. McClelland argued that the stories read
by second- to fourth-grade schoolchildren, their first readings, are to mod-