1/11/2024 0 Comments Collective culture![]() This belief is that anyone, regardless of their status can ‘pull up their boot straps’ and raise themselves from poverty. This is the Americans’ hope for a better quality of life and a higher standard of living than their parents’. The “American dream” is clearly a representation of this. The United States can clearly been seen as individualistic (scoring a 91). ![]() In an individual country like Germany people tend to have more loose relationships than countries where there is a collectivism where people have large extended families. ![]() Group work is important, but everybody has the right of his own opinion an is expected to reflect those. Germans expect from each other to fulfil their own needs. In Germany people stress on personal achievements and individual rights. On the collectivist side, we find societies in which people from birth onwards are integrated into strong, cohesive in-groups, often extended families (with uncles, aunts and grandparents) which continue protecting them in exchange for unquestioning loyalty.įor example, Germany can be considered as individualistic with a relatively high score (67) on the scale of Hofstede compared to a country like Guatemala where they have strong collectivism (6 on the scale). On the individualist side we find societies in which the ties between individuals are loose: everyone is expected to look after him/herself and his/her immediate family. Overall, Japan can be considered a collectivistic culture based on western standards moving towards an individualistic culture driven by globalization and modernization. Individualism is the one side versus its opposite, collectivism, that is the degree to which individuals are integrated into groups.
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