Culture 10

Culture is the collective programming of the mind that distinguishes members of a group or category of people from others.

Geert Hofstede (1991): Cultures and Organisations: Software of the Mind. New York: Mcgraw-Hill Education Ltd.

Geert Hofstede (1928-2020) was a Dutch social psychologist, cultural theorist and pioneer of "intercultural learning".

From 1967 to 1972, Hofstede conducted comparative intercultural research from which he developed a cultural theory. This was based on cultural areas that were clearly distinct from one another, each with its own characteristics. Hofstede's theory has been used for decades in business and in international youth exchanges as a basis for intercultural learning and intercultural management. For him, a cultural area was synonymous with a nation. He was criticised, amongst other things, for ignoring differences within countries. His Culture Compass App [https://www.hofstede-insights.com/product/culture-compass/], allows people to enter which country they come from and where they currently are in order to see what cultural difficulties they might encounter, based on this paradigm. The exhibition Geographic-Postcolonial critically examined this conception of cultural continents.

*Culture Compass App von Hofstede

1991