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Airbnb hosts in Japan deliberately keep quiet about their involvement with the online bed and breakfast site, concerned that their neighbors might have one bad interaction with a foreigner — more noise than is acceptable, leaving shoes where they are not permitted, or a trampled flowerbed — that might lead to problems with their landlord or police. This example of a conservative cultural outlook on behavior norms makes Japanese culture a ________ culture.

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The answer is Tight culture

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Tight culture are those in which their social norms are strong, reliably imposed and clearly defined, leaving room for individual improvistion and interpretation. They have little tolerance for deviance unlie loose cultures who have weak social norms and are highly permissive. Example of countries with tight culture are Japan, China, France, India, Signapore.

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