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218 DIMENSIONS OF NATIONAL CULTURES

The effect of uncertainty avoidance on a society’s legislation depends
also on its degree of individualism or collectivism. In Figure 6.2 these
two dimensions have been plotted against each other. Whereas in strongly
uncertainty- avoiding, individualist countries, rules will tend to be explicit
and written into laws (low-context communication; see Chapter 4), in

FIGURE 6.2 Uncertainty Avoidance Versus Individualism

5
Ecuador Guatemala
Panama
Venezuela
Indonesia Colombia
Pakistan
15 Costa Rica
Peru
Trinidad Taiwan
China, Africa W Thailand S Korea El Salvador
Singapore
collectivist 25 Malaysia Bangladesh Chile Serbia
Vietnam
Hong Kong
Slovenia
Africa E
Portugal
Mexico Romania
Philippines Bulgaria
Croatia
Greece
35
Arab ctrs Turkey Uruguay
Jamaica Brazil Russia
Iran Morocco Argentina
Individualism (IDV) India Slovakia Israel Spain Suriname
45
Japan
55
Czech Rep.
Lithuania Austria
Estonia Malta
Luxembourg
Finland Poland
S Africa Switzerland Fr
65
Norway Germany
Latvia France
Sweden Switzerland Ge
Ireland
Canada Quebec Belgium Fr
75 Denmark Italy
New Zealand Belgium Nl
Canada total Hungary
Netherlands
individualist Great Britain Australia
85
95 United States
5 25 45 65 85 105
weak Uncertainty Avoidance (UAI) strong