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# Hall's Personal Space: AUSTRALIA= Medium-High; BELGIUM= Medium-High; BRAZIL= Medium-Low; IRELAND= Medium-High; KOREA= Low; SOUTH AFRICA= Medium; SWITZERLAND= High; VENEZUELA= Medium-Low
# Trompenaars' Specific vs. Diffuse: AUSTRALIA=78; BELGIUM=66; BRAZIL=77; IRELAND=84; KOREA=65; SOUTH AFRICA=72; SWITZERLAND=90; VENEZUELA=52
# Trompenaars' Universalism vs. Particularism: AUSTRALIA=91; BELGIUM=66; BRAZIL=79; IRELAND=92; KOREA=37; SOUTH AFRICA=92; SWITZERLAND=97; VENEZUELA=32
# Hofstede's Indulgence: AUSTRALIA=71; BELGIUM=57; BRAZIL=59; IRELAND=65; KOREA=29; SOUTH AFRICA=63; SWITZERLAND=66; VENEZUELA=100
# Hofstede's Masculinity: AUSTRALIA=61; BELGIUM=54; BRAZIL=49; IRELAND=68; KOREA=39; SOUTH AFRICA=63; SWITZERLAND=70; VENEZUELA=73
# Hofstede's Long Term Orientation (Pragmatism): AUSTRALIA=21; BELGIUM=82; BRAZIL=44; IRELAND=24; KOREA=100; SOUTH AFRICA=34; SWITZERLAND=74; VENEZUELA=16
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The company you work for have just sent you to do a short term assignment in one of their foreign subsidiaries. You quickly notice that, in the country you were sent to, people behave quite differently from your own country: they tend to not socialize beyond work, and the few who became your friends do not like you to mix your friendship outside of work with your job roles. This is strange to you: in the country you come from, a higher proportion of people would tend to become friends and hang out in and outside of work, and such personal relationships do tend to affect how you relate at the job. 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
SWITZERLAND; SOUTH AFRICA
BELGIUM; AUSTRALIA
VENEZUELA; BRAZIL
KOREA; IRELAND

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