Geopolitics through cultural perspective. Most analysts read world leaders as rational actors or as personalities. Both miss.

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Culture predicts the future, and cultural dimensions are the tool that makes that prediction possible. Most mainstream coverage of geopolitics operates at the surface. #CulturalPerspective #CulturalDimensions #Geopolitics #CulturalAnalysis #GlobalAffairs

Western economists keep predicting China's economy will fail, and they keep being wrong. The reason is cultural.

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Universalism versus particularism asks one question. Does the rule apply to everyone, or does it bend for the right person?

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Individualism versus communitarianism asks one thing. Do you see yourself first as an individual, or first as part of a group?

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Neutral versus affective asks whether people show emotion openly or hold it back. Watch what happens during a layoff.
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Every Trompenaars cultural dimension has two poles, and where a culture sits depends entirely on what you compare it to.
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Culture is the operating system you did not choose. Trompenaars cultural dimensions is the framework to finally see it.

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Japan has a legal word for death by overwork. Sweden sends everyone home at five. Same modern economy, opposite culture.

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Trump, Putin, and Xi all run on cultural patterns you can learn to read.
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The power of Cultural Perspective and Cultural Prediction.
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A mountain kept San Marino safe. Its constitution kept it free.
Most small states that survived antiquity did so by becoming useful to larger powers. San Marino refused that path entirely. #culturaldimensions