I did have a read about that, the PDI makes a lot of sense to me and is pretty interesting if a little pseudoscientific (nowhere can quite seem to pin down how

I did have a read about that, the PDI makes a lot of sense to me and is pretty interesting if a little pseudoscientific (nowhere can quite seem to pin down how the numbered ratings are calculated but it seems arbritrary) - this being said its not clear if a thing such as cultural difference can have numbers put to it easily if at all, and I'd largely agree with the ratings of countries I have experience with. But man that got me into looking at some of the other measures used alongside that, and the "Long Term Orientation" might be some of the most inane, incoherent garbage I have ever heard. I'd say it's asian exceptionalism but it's not even that - it just doesn't make sense. Every explanation of it seems different, and most explanations aren't internally consistent, literally including examples of the same thing at opposite ends as though it were different. As far as I can tell the original concept seems to have started out with "lets make a rating that puts china at the top/I heard of yin and yang once" and gone from there, but even then as described it usually is stupid, putting things like "belief in tradition" and "desire for stability" as things in the SHORT term column and "adaptability" in the long term column like lol what