Author Question: You are from a collectivistic culture. If you are a woman, with whom will you likely live? What ... (Read 35 times)

humphriesbr@me.com · **on:** Jun 21, 2018

You are from a collectivistic culture. If you are a woman, with whom will you likely live?

What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

You are from the United States. How does your self-esteem likely compare with people from other countries?

What will be an ideal response?

cam1229 · **Reply #1 on:** Jun 21, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Answer: In collectivistic cultures, family relationships are tightly enmeshed, with adult childrenespecially womenliving with their parents until they marry.

Answer to Question 2

Answer: People from individualistic cultures such as the United States have higher self-esteem than those from collectivistic cultures such as Japan. In one large international study, the residents of Serbia, Chile, and Israel reported the highest self-esteem (the United States was 6th out of 53 nations). Residents of Japan scored the lowest, followed by Hong Kong, Bangladesh, and Taiwan.