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Use the following data to answer the next question:
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# Hofstede's Individualism: AUSTRIA=55; CZECH REPUBLIC=58; HONG KONG=25; LATVIA=70; SLOVAK REPUBLIC=52; SWEDEN=71; THAILAND=20; VIETNAM=20
# Hofstede's Indulgence: AUSTRIA=63; CZECH REPUBLIC=29; HONG KONG=17; LATVIA=13; SLOVAK REPUBLIC=28; SWEDEN=78; THAILAND=45; VIETNAM=35
# Hofstede's Masculinity: AUSTRIA=79; CZECH REPUBLIC=57; HONG KONG=57; LATVIA=9; SLOVAK REPUBLIC=100; SWEDEN=5; THAILAND=34; VIETNAM=40
# Hofstede's Power Distance: AUSTRIA=11; CZECH REPUBLIC=57; HONG KONG=68; LATVIA=44; SLOVAK REPUBLIC=100; SWEDEN=31; THAILAND=64; VIETNAM=70
# Hofstede's Pragmatism (Long Term Orientation):
AUSTRIA=60; CZECH REPUBLIC=70; HONG KONG=61; LATVIA=69; SLOVAK REPUBLIC=77; SWEDEN=53; THAILAND=32; VIETNAM=57
# Hofstede's Uncertainty Avoidance: AUSTRIA=70; CZECH REPUBLIC=74; HONG KONG=29; LATVIA=63; SLOVAK REPUBLIC=51; SWEDEN=29; THAILAND=64; VIETNAM=30
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The multinational enterprise (MNE) you work for sent you to its subsidiary in a foreign country to set up a new technology they are not familiar with. You quickly notice that people in the subsidiary need you to explain your instructions in painful detail, and need you to give them constant feed-back, so they can be sure they really understood them properly. Quite the opposite of how things work back at home, where more often a person would provide instructions once, and then more people would figure it out from there, and do not want or welcome constant feed-back. According to the data provided, and assuming the listed variables is all the information you have, there is a much GREATER probability that YOU WERE SENT TO a country such as ________, than to _______ :
Group of answer choices
THAILAND; HONG KONG
SWEDEN; AUSTRIA
SLOVAK REPUBLIC; CZECH REPUBLIC
VIETNAM; LATVIA

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