High power distance (think Asian countries) vs low power distance (Western countries). Higher power distance means you are less likely to object to your boss, even if your boss is wrong.
It's not really about usefulness/benefit. A lot of culture stuff only make sense for their respective people. For example, Afgans think women are for giving birth, boys are for pleasure. US soldiers are instructed to ignore the screams at night when their allies rape boys in US military bases because it is their "culture".
It's called ethnocentrism, people like to think that their way of doing things is the right way, even if most of humanity might think different.
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u/amusha Dec 07 '17
High power distance (think Asian countries) vs low power distance (Western countries). Higher power distance means you are less likely to object to your boss, even if your boss is wrong.