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Look at the people around you. Some are passive, others more aggressive. Som
Look at the people around you. Some are passive, others more aggressive. Som
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2023-08-05
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Look at the people around you. Some are passive, others more aggressive. Some work best alone, others crave companionship. We easily recognize that there is great variation among the individuals who live near us. Yet, when we speak of people from elsewhere, we seem to inevitably characterize them based on their country of origin.
Statistics specialists, when they speak of national averages, often make the same mistake.
Newly published research shows how erroneous such overviews are. Three researchers analyzed decades of values-based surveys and found that only between 16% and 21% of the variation in cultural values could be explained by differences between countries. In other words, the vast majority of what makes us culturally distinct from one another has nothing to do with our homeland.
To determine what factors really are associated with culture, the authors combined data from 558 prior surveys that each measured one or more of Hofstede’s cultural dimensions. These are traits, such as individualism and masculinity, that describe work-related cultural values. (They are not a measure of visible cultural traits, such as food or dress.) Though the validity of Hofstede’s dimensions has been questioned, they have the singular benefit of having been in use for decades, which allows for historical and international comparisons.
The researchers found that both demographic factors, such as age, and environmental factors, such as long-term unemployment rates, were more correlated with cultural values than nationality. Occupation and social economic status were the most strongly correlated, suggesting that our values are more economically driven than we usually give them credit for.
The evidence implies that people with similar jobs and incomes are more culturally alike, regardless of where they live. Vas Taras, the lead author of the study, puts it this way: "Tell me how much you make and I will make a pretty accurate prediction about your cultural values. Tell me what your nationality is and I probably will make a wrong prediction."
Taras says our erroneous belief that countries are cultures has caused businesses to teach their employees useless or even harmful ways of interacting with their international peers. Chinese and American lawyers might be trained to interact based on the assumption that the Chinese person is less individualistic, even though their similar social economic situations make it probable they are actually quite alike in that regard.
The country, as the unit of authority, is often a convenient way of generalizing about a population. However, our focus on countries can mask broad variations within them. In the majority of cases we would be better off identifying people by the factors that constrain their lives, like income, rather than by the lines surrounding them on a map. [br] What do we learn about Hofstede’s cultural dimensions?
选项
A、They are useful in comparing cultural values across time and space.
B、They have brought unusual benefits to people of different cultures.
C、They are widely used to identify people’s individual traits.
D、They provide valuable questions for researchers to study.
答案
A
解析
根据题干中的信息词Hofstede’s cultural dimensions,答案线索可以定位在第四段。第四段最后一句指出,尽管霍夫斯泰德(文化)维度的有效性一直受到质疑,但其独特的优点是已经被应用了几十年,这允许(研究者)进行历史性比较和国家之间的比较。选项A中的comparing…across time and space正好对应该句话中historical and international comparisons,“跨时间”也就是“历史性的”。“跨空间”也就是“国家之间的”,故选项A为正确答案。其他三个选项在文中都没有提及,故均排除。
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