Episode 9: Exploring Hofstede's 6 Cultural Dimensions and the differences in Long-Term Orientation in Denmark, Ireland, Morocco and the United States of America

We will go through the fifth of the six Gaert Hofstede Cultural Dimensions which is Long Term Orientation for Denmark, Ireland, Morocco and the United States of America. This tool helps give you insight into the 6 dimensions of culture from countries from around the world and is helpful to cross cultural couples in learning about their partner's culture and their own. This tool can help you business and personal relationships but is especially helpful for intercultural couples in gaining insight and comparing their culture with their partner's culture. Long Term Orientation specially will examine the relationship between the past with current and future challenges. Normative societies that score low on this index are value tradition and strong societal norms and view social change with suspicion. Societies with higher rankings on long-term orientation focus on the future at the expense of the short-term gains.  This cultural dimension can impact how your relationships view longer term investments, tradition, parenting and a number of other areas in a relationship so it's an important dimension to explore.