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RE: National Culture - Individualism VS Collectivism around the World

in #philosophy7 years ago

I missed this in my feed when you originally posted it otherwise I would have upvoted it. My country is, Australia, is very red! But we also have lots of migrants from countries that are highly collectivist in these rankings. I see this play out everyday.

My sister in law is Taiwanese and in their culture it is expected that her parents will live with her when they are older. My brother, who is highly individualistic, is not supportive of this! I will get to see the clash of cultures play out in real life in about 15 years. If steemit is still around I’ll let you know how it goes 😂😂😂

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Yes, all countries historically related to UK (UK itself, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) are very, very red.

It's not uncommon in my country neither (Serbia) that children accept their old parents to live with them. You're actually considered somewhat rude here if you send your old parent to go to a retirement home, unless there's a very good reason for it (like, you're constantly on business trips so you can't be much with your parent anyway, or you parent has serious dementia or other problem that makes him/her dangerous for your own kids).

I'm looking forward to hear about how it played out for your brother and sister in law in about 15 years. 😀 😀