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Is National Culture a Meaningful Concept?: Cultural Values Delineate Homogeneous National Clusters of In-Country Regions

Minkov, Michael, Hofstede, Geert·2012·Cross-Cultural Research
DOI 10.1177/1069397111427262
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Although many cross-cultural studies have used nations as the units of analysis, the concept of national culture has been challenged on various grounds. One objection is that there may be significant cultural diversity within some countries and similarities across national borders, compromising the concept of national culture. This objection has little empirical support. We used latest World Values Survey data and found that 299 in-country regions from 28 countries in East and Southeast Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and the Anglo world overwhelmingly cluster along national lines on basic cultural values, cross-border intermixtures being relatively rare. This is true even of countries like Malaysia and Indonesia, or Mexico and Guatemala, despite their shared official languages, religions, ethnic groups, historical experiences, and various traditions. Even the regions of neighboring African nations, such as Ghana, Burkina Faso, and Mali, do not intermix much when they are clustered on the basis of cultural values.

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Authors
Minkov, M., & Hofstede, G.
Venue
Cross-Cultural Research
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
2011-11-30
Volume
46
Issue
2
Pages
133-159
ISSN
  • 0094-3673 (ISSN-L)
  • 1069-3971
  • 1552-3578
DOI
10.1177/1069397111427262
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W2156318227
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294
References
23
FWCI
13.07
Type
journal article
Language
en
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