The concept that China as representative of
collectivist culture has been challenged recently.
However, individualist cultures tend to believe that there are universal values that should be shared by all, while
collectivist cultures tend to accept that different groups have different values.
In terms of the attainment of certain goals, they found it to be more related to well-being in
collectivist cultures than individualistic culture.
The writing was on the wall the moment the EU revealed its
collectivist political policy, and no matter what happens it will be a great day, a day of celebration, when our United Kingdom is free once more.
Hence, as Blaylock (Blaylock, 1989) conducted research in the United States of America, which is an individualistic society, this study wished to confirm his findings with ethnic groups in
collectivist society data.
To enforce a tyranny, a
collectivist must have copious information.
Using an experimental approach, we more closely examined the causal relationship between
collectivist value orientation and exchange ideology.
Much research has been carried out in anthropology and cross-cultural psychology on the differences between Individualist cultures and
Collectivist cultures.
A "manifesto" attributed to the alleged killer, Dylann Roof, 21, exposes the author of the screed as an anti-American
collectivist race-monger obsessed with superficial characteristics such as skin color who harbored a bizarre wish to spark a "race war." Ironically, though, despite agitation and hate spewing by some race-mongers, the drug user's massacre of innocent Christians brought many Americans of all races together across South Carolina and beyond like never before.
Design/methodology/approach- Questionnaires were used to gather responses employing Hogarth and Einhorn's (1992) Belief-Adjustment Model (BAM) and Hofstede's (1991, 2006) national culture concept were employed to report the results of revision estimates of budgeted audit hours of thirty groups each of
collectivist (individualist) culture working in groups of two auditors that were randomly allocated to one of the experimental conditions of relatively (un)favorable audit evidence.
Writing for the Heritage Foundation's Daily Signal, Nadin Naumann argues on explicitly
collectivist grounds against the individual's right to take his own life, asking, "And how about the friends and family that are affected by their loved one's diagnosis?
Some scholars argue that even Japan the typical role model of a trusting
collectivist society is not as trusting as commonly believed.
The second group of countries--East and South Asia, and the Middle East and North Africa--were less affected by colonialism and managed to retain their traditional community (
collectivist) institutions that prevented the rise in income and wealth inequalities.
Her fresh approach revisits the Marxist
collectivist rejection of the family as a pillar of capitalism and Ann Rand's belief that families limit individual freedom, and acknowledges the social problems and political instability that have resulted from the decline of familial ties and increase of individual importance.
