Response of chapter 3 by KU

Chapter 3 is talking about Inequality. Inequality is always a trouble. In term of mathematics, solving an inequality is more complicated than solving an equation. Although inequality is nothing good as its name implied, many countries in the world have accepted it. The author goes through the chapter using the power distance index.

For a high power distance country, you can feel that everywhere. In the school, students are very much respect to teachers. Most students won’t raise questions in class in order not disturbing the tempo of the lecture. In the workplace, subordinates take all the order from superior even they are something out of their job responsibility. It can simply explain as the power teacher/superior has is higher. For a low power distance country such as US, everyone is supposed to be treated equal. Take McDonalds as an example, no matter you were a homeless or a president of the country, you have to take the food and throw the trash yourselves as nobody is going to serve you. Everyone is equal.

It seems low power distance country works better. But why so many countries in the world are still in high power? There are many factors leading this. The most important one is education. In low power distance, everyone is fair and has right to speak out their opinion. We will accept and tolerate others who are holding opposite viewpoint even we are not happy with that. But if for people who are uneducated, the way they duel with it might probably by fighting. In this case, it might be better to have someone with high power to rule them.