I guess the plan is to have a ten minutes each time. but in execution, the plan is exceded but the title is too late to change. For a senior citizen like Dr. Hofstede, it is admirable for him to speak so clearly in vocal quality and in meaning as well. I hope in my eighties, I would achieve this level of clearity in thinking and talking.
The UK (where I live) has one of the lowest ratings in the world on this measure. It means people find change interesting in general, rather than dangerous.
Given the migration crisis in Europe today, I'd like to see eminent researchers like Hofstede talk more about how to integrate Muslims, Arab and non-Arab as the mixing of very different cultures in the West today is explosive. Call a spade a spade and get specific rather than dancing around the bush. How difficult will integration be, or is it going to lead to bloodshed in the streets?
The answer is Taboo - change religion. Saying as an immigration came from a collectivist, high power distance, etc etc...all changed to the opposite when I become a Christian.
I am totally for Carpe Diem but I also like to think about the future and have everything planned out. Ironically, not thinking about the future & feeling like I don't have a a plan makes me more anxious than trying to figure out any possible uncertainties that may come up later l.
The interesting thing is this research doesn't work for individuals from a particular country. It only refers to large numbers of people from a particular country. If you choose a random person from, say, Germany, there's no guarantee that they will be the same as what the overall data shows for that country.
How do you decide, from UAI score 0-100. Which is low, medium, or high? Is 49 low? 50 medium? And 51 is high? I can't find any explanations about this in the web. Please answer if anyone knows
i have studied at University in my cross cultural communication class that it is very relative ; as a country is high in uncertainty avoidance or vise versa only when compared to another country. This is because differences between societies is the only thing that you can measure which means that the UAI scores are based on such comparisons only. For instance, the Arab countries are high in uncertainty avoidance when compared to the USA, but when compared to Russia, the Arab countries are considered low in uncertainty avoidance.
it's purely relative and comparative. so 50 is high if the country you're comparing it to 30. but 50 is low if the country you're comparing with is 70.
I see it like this - a country where all respondents would answer "yes" to every single UA metric is the ultimate 100. A country where the exact opposite is true is the ultimate 0. In reality, of course, everyone falls somewhere in between, depending on the average share of UAvoidance / UAcceptaice choices the respondents have made.
I don't quite get it, either. Singapore is full of rules, laws and pretty intrusive regulations, and yet is the lowest in the index (8). The Xenophobic part is also very problematic. EUA is not inclusive at all, even the efforts, it's just against the culture, and they 46 in the index. Mexico, 82, is one of the most welcoming countries to foreigners you can find...
@@Dragnesi It's not really about any of that. It's about being accepting of not knowing what tomorrow will bring. For instance: you make plans for tomorrow, but then actually you end up doing completely different things on the spur of the moment, and you don't mind that this has happened. Instead of being annoyed, you find it interesting. That's what uncertainty avoidance means. So people in Singapore or China wouldn't mind that happening to them. In a country like France or Germany, people would get a bit upset if all their plans for tomorrow are changed at the last minute for some reason. I live here in the UK and our score is pretty low as well, which means most people here also don't mind if their plans for tomorrow are suddenly changed at the last moment, similar to China and Singapore. I know this from visiting Singapore and China, because sometimes the schedule we had with our tour guides was changed at the last moment, without any warning, and this seemed to be a normal and acceptable thing to happen in those places. They'd say: we were supposed to go and see an acrobatic show tonight, but we've just changed it to going to the night safari instead. That's just an example. German and French people might get slightly upset at that happening, because they didn't get enough warning of the change of plans.
@@reveranttangent1771 No. Individualism is about personal-success, and not relying on others. The USA was founded by Individualists. The majority of the founders were Christians from England. In their constitution it states 'The Pursuit of Happiness' and 'Individual Liberty'. A century and a half later, the USA became a Super Power. All the Tech Companies come from California. China and India had collectivism (keeping with tradition, family before work) and therefor languished. National Wealth is from Work and Innovation, not from Family and Harmony.
@@benn2946 The interesting thing is that the USA, UK and Australia are all about the same on the individualistic scale. So the fact that the puritans left England for what became the United States didn't make the USA more individualistic compared to the place they left. One might have expected that the USA would be more individualistic than the UK or Australia. The big difference between the USA and the UK is how religious people are. People are far more religious in the US compared to the UK. People in the UK don't take religion all that seriously.
For France and xenophobia, aren't the french pretty tolerant when all things are considered ? For example, the US scores way lower, but they are more intolerant than France... So much so, that during WW1, black soldiers were surprised to be treated so well/as equal by the French. Of course, having a colonial empire helped a lot, but I dunno if that one example is good. Well, maybe one could argue that this tolerance is actually because that's how the rules were made. And that, in a way, with all of this history, and also the principles of the revolution ("Tous les hommes naissent libre et égaux en droits."/All men are born free and equals in right") made it a certitude.
UAI dimension is one the most difficult one when I first learn the concept. I tried very hard. So far my understanding is two things. One, Xenophobia is uncertainty acoidance rather than acceptance for sure. It is in our nature and social instinct as human dated back to hundreds of thousands of years ago when other tribes are obvious competitor to each other for survival resources. Strategic alliances temporarily does not alleviate the phenomena of Xenophobia. Two，UAI dimension is used to cover a whole range of possible representations of mentality and behaviour, with Xenophobia as one of them. Desperately, I guess France is heavily charged in other factors of UAI， compared with USA. Otherwise the whole concept of UAI would be difficult to hold water tight.
maybe france is tolerant to different races but not different cultures? they don't care if you're an arab, but they might if you're a muslim. for example they tried to ban the burka in parts of france and quebec. so they certainly have a domineering culture, it's just not bound to race or skin color. if you assimilate into french culture they'll treat you equal to other franks.
@@JewTube001 This is plausible explanation and I love it. What I would add to your observation is that the whole momentum of assimilation is like a sand happen to be swallowed by an oyster. No sand would like to be assimilated and no oyster would not like to assimilate the sand, unless it has its way of spitting the sand out. Nature does not care about what we think as individuals, in the name of moraltiy or science, about this mometum. Nature really do not care. Either assimilated, or not, or both have to bare the inconvenience. But if a whale swallow the oyster, the same Nature still play its way, indifferent and carefree.
To add to your observation, read the history of the Hell Fighters of Harlem, the black US Army regiment that fought along side the French. They became the most highly decorated unit of the War. the French not only welcomed them into their units to fight, but also embraced the American music, jazz. Which France became a home for black artists in later years to perform without prejudice. Josephine Baker, Billie Holliday, Basie, Ellington were a music heroes in France.
I agree, he talks slowly. You can fix that by doubling the speed on the settings and add captions. The mind can process about 500 words a minute, and people speak about 125-150 a minute, which is likely why you are finding yourself disengaged.
I agree, he talks slowly. You can fix that by doubling the speed on the settings and add captions. The mind can process about 500 words a minute, and people speak about 125-150 a minute, which is likely why you are finding yourself disengaged.
Good to have a true scholar with thorough science background on TH-cam … rare and needed.
Thank u sir, RIP
Still relevant. Thank you, mr. Hofstede! Watching from Groningen.
Thank you! This is very helpful.
Amazing work sir!
Thank you so much you helped me a lot
"10 minutes with"
is literally 15 minutes long.
Well there's a hint to which type of culture you come from
Watch at 1,5x speed. Problem solved
brilliant ! 😂@@Baamthe25th
I guess the plan is to have a ten minutes each time. but in execution, the plan is exceded but the title is too late to change. For a senior citizen like Dr. Hofstede, it is admirable for him to speak so clearly in vocal quality and in meaning as well. I hope in my eighties, I would achieve this level of clearity in thinking and talking.
@@Baamthe25th*LOL*
Better than my textbook
The UK (where I live) has one of the lowest ratings in the world on this measure. It means people find change interesting in general, rather than dangerous.
0:30 "A Behavioural Theory of the Firm" by Cyert and March
thanks i was searching this I didn't understand the name of book from video
This is fascinating!
Great 👏👏
ended up being 45 minutes long after I fell asleep half way through
Given the migration crisis in Europe today, I'd like to see eminent researchers like Hofstede talk more about how to integrate Muslims, Arab and non-Arab as the mixing of very different cultures in the West today is explosive. Call a spade a spade and get specific rather than dancing around the bush. How difficult will integration be, or is it going to lead to bloodshed in the streets?
Good question now that Canadians are facing the voting ballets soon.
It takes a very long time for groups of people to change their belief systems. Hundreds of years sometimes.
The answer is Taboo - change religion. Saying as an immigration came from a collectivist, high power distance, etc etc...all changed to the opposite when I become a Christian.
I am totally for Carpe Diem but I also like to think about the future and have everything planned out. Ironically, not thinking about the future & feeling like I don't have a a plan makes me more anxious than trying to figure out any possible uncertainties that may come up later l.
The interesting thing is this research doesn't work for individuals from a particular country. It only refers to large numbers of people from a particular country. If you choose a random person from, say, Germany, there's no guarantee that they will be the same as what the overall data shows for that country.
great video!
Very good theory
For the Algerian society i guess is in between 🤔
How do you decide, from UAI score 0-100. Which is low, medium, or high? Is 49 low? 50 medium? And 51 is high? I can't find any explanations about this in the web. Please answer if anyone knows
i have studied at University in my cross cultural communication class that it is very relative ; as a country is high in uncertainty avoidance or vise versa only when compared to another country. This is because differences between societies is the only thing that you can measure which means that the UAI scores are based on such comparisons only. For instance, the Arab countries are high in uncertainty avoidance when compared to the USA, but when compared to Russia, the Arab countries are considered low in uncertainty avoidance.
it's purely relative and comparative. so 50 is high if the country you're comparing it to 30. but 50 is low if the country you're comparing with is 70.
0 is low uncertainty avoidance and 100 is high.
I see it like this - a country where all respondents would answer "yes" to every single UA metric is the ultimate 100. A country where the exact opposite is true is the ultimate 0. In reality, of course, everyone falls somewhere in between, depending on the average share of UAvoidance / UAcceptaice choices the respondents have made.
I felt shocked that China is really low？？！！！
Same, Singapore too. Must not have to do with strict laws, but more with culture
I don't quite get it, either. Singapore is full of rules, laws and pretty intrusive regulations, and yet is the lowest in the index (8). The Xenophobic part is also very problematic. EUA is not inclusive at all, even the efforts, it's just against the culture, and they 46 in the index. Mexico, 82, is one of the most welcoming countries to foreigners you can find...
China is ugly and a shithole
@@Dragnesi It's not really about any of that. It's about being accepting of not knowing what tomorrow will bring. For instance: you make plans for tomorrow, but then actually you end up doing completely different things on the spur of the moment, and you don't mind that this has happened. Instead of being annoyed, you find it interesting. That's what uncertainty avoidance means. So people in Singapore or China wouldn't mind that happening to them. In a country like France or Germany, people would get a bit upset if all their plans for tomorrow are changed at the last minute for some reason. I live here in the UK and our score is pretty low as well, which means most people here also don't mind if their plans for tomorrow are suddenly changed at the last moment, similar to China and Singapore. I know this from visiting Singapore and China, because sometimes the schedule we had with our tour guides was changed at the last moment, without any warning, and this seemed to be a normal and acceptable thing to happen in those places. They'd say: we were supposed to go and see an acrobatic show tonight, but we've just changed it to going to the night safari instead. That's just an example. German and French people might get slightly upset at that happening, because they didn't get enough warning of the change of plans.
is national wealth causing individualism or is it the other way around?
Wealth cause individualism.
@@reveranttangent1771 No. Individualism is about personal-success, and not relying on others. The USA was founded by Individualists. The majority of the founders were Christians from England. In their constitution it states 'The Pursuit of Happiness' and 'Individual Liberty'. A century and a half later, the USA became a Super Power. All the Tech Companies come from California. China and India had collectivism (keeping with tradition, family before work) and therefor languished. National Wealth is from Work and Innovation, not from Family and Harmony.
@@benn2946 The interesting thing is that the USA, UK and Australia are all about the same on the individualistic scale. So the fact that the puritans left England for what became the United States didn't make the USA more individualistic compared to the place they left. One might have expected that the USA would be more individualistic than the UK or Australia. The big difference between the USA and the UK is how religious people are. People are far more religious in the US compared to the UK. People in the UK don't take religion all that seriously.
For France and xenophobia, aren't the french pretty tolerant when all things are considered ? For example, the US scores way lower, but they are more intolerant than France... So much so, that during WW1, black soldiers were surprised to be treated so well/as equal by the French.
Of course, having a colonial empire helped a lot, but I dunno if that one example is good.
Well, maybe one could argue that this tolerance is actually because that's how the rules were made. And that, in a way, with all of this history, and also the principles of the revolution ("Tous les hommes naissent libre et égaux en droits."/All men are born free and equals in right") made it a certitude.
UAI dimension is one the most difficult one when I first learn the concept. I tried very hard. So far my understanding is two things. One, Xenophobia is uncertainty acoidance rather than acceptance for sure. It is in our nature and social instinct as human dated back to hundreds of thousands of years ago when other tribes are obvious competitor to each other for survival resources. Strategic alliances temporarily does not alleviate the phenomena of Xenophobia. Two，UAI dimension is used to cover a whole range of possible representations of mentality and behaviour, with Xenophobia as one of them. Desperately, I guess France is heavily charged in other factors of UAI， compared with USA. Otherwise the whole concept of UAI would be difficult to hold water tight.
maybe france is tolerant to different races but not different cultures? they don't care if you're an arab, but they might if you're a muslim. for example they tried to ban the burka in parts of france and quebec. so they certainly have a domineering culture, it's just not bound to race or skin color. if you assimilate into french culture they'll treat you equal to other franks.
@@JewTube001 This is plausible explanation and I love it. What I would add to your observation is that the whole momentum of assimilation is like a sand happen to be swallowed by an oyster. No sand would like to be assimilated and no oyster would not like to assimilate the sand, unless it has its way of spitting the sand out. Nature does not care about what we think as individuals, in the name of moraltiy or science, about this mometum. Nature really do not care. Either assimilated, or not, or both have to bare the inconvenience. But if a whale swallow the oyster, the same Nature still play its way, indifferent and carefree.
The French may seem less racist on a superficial level, but black people are more likely to hold important positions in the USA than France.
To add to your observation, read the history of the Hell Fighters of Harlem, the black US Army regiment that fought along side the French. They became the most highly decorated unit of the War. the French not only welcomed them into their units to fight, but also embraced the American music, jazz. Which France became a home for black artists in later years to perform without prejudice. Josephine Baker, Billie Holliday, Basie, Ellington were a music heroes in France.
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school makes me watch this and it is so the most boring thing I ever have to do. I cant even focus! This dude should learn how to engage an audience.
hahaha i think it's quite engaging lol. Maybe it's just not your cup of tea?
@@Silver-ic1xo ts more thay he's talking so slowly and softly and in 1 tone. He should get more engaging
@@royperdok5428 hahaha i guess but im used to it since maybe it's his way of presentating and he is old atm but hey. It's okay if you disagree
I agree, he talks slowly. You can fix that by doubling the speed on the settings and add captions. The mind can process about 500 words a minute, and people speak about 125-150 a minute, which is likely why you are finding yourself disengaged.
I agree, he talks slowly. You can fix that by doubling the speed on the settings and add captions. The mind can process about 500 words a minute, and people speak about 125-150 a minute, which is likely why you are finding yourself disengaged.