US Versus Quebec | Clarissa's Blog
Australia is a high context culture, not a low context one. This is reflected even in the street signs, which are far from systematic, implying you have to know where you are going or you are an outsider.
Also I would say that the low context, independent style was the one I was brought up with, except in the case of understanding jokes, which were high context. Really, I think it may be impossible to categorise nationalities in this way. You could say that there is a certain degree of rationality that makes for independent thinking, rather than relying on the collective mind, but a lot of stuff will still be context dependent. I think gender relations are very much like this, because there are certain behavioral lines you can't cross before people start to penalize you for that.
Australia is a high context culture, not a low context one. This is reflected even in the street signs, which are far from systematic, implying you have to know where you are going or you are an outsider.
Also I would say that the low context, independent style was the one I was brought up with, except in the case of understanding jokes, which were high context. Really, I think it may be impossible to categorise nationalities in this way. You could say that there is a certain degree of rationality that makes for independent thinking, rather than relying on the collective mind, but a lot of stuff will still be context dependent. I think gender relations are very much like this, because there are certain behavioral lines you can't cross before people start to penalize you for that.
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