What Culture Actually Is: Rules, Risk, and the Unknown. Thursday's Edition

All People Are the Same: They Just Do Things Differently. Series 22 #4

Uncertainty Avoidance is one of the least understood (and awkwardly named) and most underestimated of Hofstede’s dimensions. It measures the extent to which members of a society feel threatened by ambiguous, unknown, or unstructured situations, as well as the resulting anxiety. Do people need rigid codes of belief and behavior, and formal rules, or main…