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Why would cross-cultural psychologist Harry Triandis be interested to contrast the cultures of Australia and Taiwan

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one is an individualist culture and the other collectivist

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Culture is defined as the collective understanding of a way that how the world works which is shared by the members of the group. It is the norms and the social behavior found in the society and it varies with the geography of the planet.

Harry Triandis was an American psychologist who was well known for his cross cultural psychology.

Harry Triandis was interest to contrast the cultures of Australia and Taiwan as Australia has a highly individualistic culture while Taiwan is a collectivist culture.

In individualistic culture, as in Australia, people look after themselves and their direct family only while that in Taiwan people in the society belong to groups and the every group looks after their people in exchange of loyalties.

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