What Machiavelli did not write but what the association between political systems and citizens' mental software suggests is that which animal the rul… - Geert Hofstede

In most collectivist cultures, direct confrontation of another person is considered rude and undesirable. The word no is seldom used, because saying “no” is a confrontation; “you may be right” and “we will think about it” are examples of polite ways of turning down a request. In the same vein, the word yes should not necessarily be inferred as an approval, since it is used to maintain the line of communication: “yes, I heard you” is the meaning it has in Japan.

is defined as the extent to which the less powerful members of institutions and organizations within a country expect and accept that power is distributed unequally.

Values are a broad tendency to prefer certain states of affairs over others.