If you were invited to a family meal in Japan, a collectivistic culture, would you expect it to be more or less scripted than a family meal in Great Britain, an individualistic culture?
A) You would expect the Japanese meal to be less scripted.
B) You would expect the Japanese meal to be more scripted.
C) You would expect no difference in the scripts, since the situation is the same.
D) It would depend on your expectations of the family meal.
Question 2
According to Asch's famous line judging studies on conformity, what is true about conformity and culture?
A) People from individualistic cultures almost never conform.
B) People from collectivistic cultures conform even more than people from individualistic cultures.
C) Conformity does not differ across cultures.
D) People from individualistic cultures conform even more than people from collectivistic cultures.
A nineteenth-century Japanese portrait of Commodore Matthew Perry, who “opened up” Japan in 1854.
Figure 7.1 shows the rapid decline in the trust of Americans in government since the 1960s. This de
Buddha (Amida), Japan.
Art and culture
Art and culture