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Cultural beliefs are beliefs held by a majority of culture members. Given a set of questions, on the same topic, shared cultural beliefs or norms regarding the answers can be estimated by aggregating the responses across a sample of culture members. When an agreement is close to absolute, estimating answers is straightforward.
[1] [2] Suggested questions include humans' relations with time, nature and each other, as well as basic human motives and the nature of human nature. Florence Kluckhohn and Fred Strodtbeck suggested alternate answers to all five, developed culture-specific measures of each, and described the value orientation profiles of five southwestern ...
In 1965 Hofstede founded the personnel research department of IBM Europe (which he managed until 1971). Between 1967 and 1973, he executed a large survey study regarding national values differences across the worldwide subsidiaries of this multinational corporation: he compared the answers of 117,000 IBM matched employees samples on the same attitude survey in different countries.
Out of the 200 students who participated in the original sample the 100 black students answered 87/100 answers correctly and the whites answered 51/100 questions correctly. In the other samples the results were similar with the black students' scores being drastically different from those of the whites.
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You might hear "Chrimbo" if you're in the UK. Richard Stonehouse/ Getty Images. In the UK, you're likely to hear "Happy Christmas" instead of "Merry Christmas," and "Father Christmas" instead of ...
[citation needed] In 2007 Majima and Savage have questioned which measures of culture are most adequate and whether the measured change over time is real, [24] and Bomhoff and Gu in 2012 have argued that East Asian attitudes and values are not adequately reflected.
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