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# Hall's High vs Low Context: BRAZIL= Medium-High; CZECH REPUBLIC= Medium-Low; IRELAND= Medium-Low; KOREA= High; NETHERLANDS= Medium-Low; RUSSIA= Medium-High; SWEDEN= Low; SWITZERLAND= Low
# Hall's Personal Space: BRAZIL= Medium-Low; CZECH REPUBLIC= Medium; IRELAND= Medium-High; KOREA= Low; NETHERLANDS= Medium-High; RUSSIA= Medium; SWEDEN= High; SWITZERLAND= High
# Trompenaars' Achieved vs. Ascribed: BRAZIL=33; CZECH REPUBLIC=13; IRELAND=65; KOREA=20; NETHERLANDS=54; RUSSIA=30; SWEDEN=54; SWITZERLAND=34
# Trompenaars' Universalism vs. Particularism: BRAZIL=79; CZECH REPUBLIC=83; IRELAND=92; KOREA=37; NETHERLANDS=90; RUSSIA=44; SWEDEN=92; SWITZERLAND=97
# Hofstede's Indulgence: BRAZIL=59; CZECH REPUBLIC=29; IRELAND=65; KOREA=29; NETHERLANDS=68; RUSSIA=20; SWEDEN=78; SWITZERLAND=66
# Hofstede's Masculinity: BRAZIL=49; CZECH REPUBLIC=57; IRELAND=68; KOREA=39; NETHERLANDS=14; RUSSIA=36; SWEDEN=5; SWITZERLAND=70
# Hofstede's Long Term Orientation (Pragmatism): BRAZIL=44; CZECH REPUBLIC=70; IRELAND=24; KOREA=100; NETHERLANDS=67; RUSSIA=81; SWEDEN=53; SWITZERLAND=74
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Imagine you were sent by your multinational company to a foreign subsidiary, to conduct a negotiation with an important client there. During the negotiations, you spend time equally and treat everyone of your client's representatives in the same manner. However, you notice that your subsidiary colleagues keep asking you to give more time and special attention to two of the clients' representatives, because they came from traditional families and even descended from local nobility. That surprised you, because in your country there is much greater change everyone would be treated equally, and such individual ties are not as relevant. According to the data provided, and assuming the listed variables is all the information you have, there is a much GREATER probability that YOU ARE FROM a country such as ________, than from _______ :
Group of answer choices
SWEDEN; IRELAND
KOREA; BRAZIL
SWITZERLAND; NETHERLANDS
RUSSIA; CZECH REPUBLIC

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