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Culture is the collective programming of the mind distinguishing the members of one group or category of people from others.

— Geert Hofstede Culture's consequences: International differences in work-related values (1980)

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Individualism implies a loosely knit social framework in which people are supposed to take care of themselves and of their immediate families only.

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