【Talk about English】 我们究竟是什么 (Episode9-2/5)

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第一个提出鉴别个体文化和集体文化重要性的是以为叫做Geert Hofstede的荷兰学者，本期主播Marc Beeby会领着我们一起看看他的研究成果，一起来听听吧。
         
       

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Hofstede discovered that the level of education in a culture was a dominant factor in deciding the power distance, so in higher power distance cultures, a higher value was put on obedience and conformity and some of this could be seen to be because the workforce was perhaps less well-educated and more afraid of disagreeing with their bosses. The opposite of this kind of high power distance culture is the low power distance culture and in those kinds of cultures he expected to see more democratic systems of management and more freedom on the part of the workers to have a say in the way that decisions were made or the business was run.
I think that Canada generally is quite an egalitarian country. If you have someone who's a new immigrant who perhaps doesn't have a great command of English they will probably want to respond to their boss using the more formal family name. They would just be used to doing that. Now it depends on the context but generally in the Canadian workplace people are more comfortable using a first name so the boss might say, “no, it's okay, just call me by my first name".