This week's reading overall was definitely mind-bottling. It mainly focused on dimensions of national cultures and the overall perception within those regions. Overall, this article dissected the botany of power distances in different countries. Of course, throughout centuries, power of others in other large part of our world has definitely decreased. And, due to globalization and other deciding factors, Western ideals lay a huge emphasis on the importance of independence, liberation and emancipation, and education opportunities. This article argues that even though all these factors play a huge part in altering countries and their beliefs, values, government, etc. It doesn't necessarily mean that countries will/have to change. There are factors such as: latitude, size, wealth, and population size that all affect whether or not power and thoughts will change in these countries.

Something interesting I read was when it described wealth, it mentioned how power distances is only reduce is there is an increase in wealth but on;y if it benefits the entire population. It's interesting because you can root this as the root to the problem of power distances in countries. It's hard for wealth to increase in countries, specially if some of these countries are already poor, then wouldn't the economy just stagnate or deteriorate?

Finally, one of my favorite parts of reading this article was when describing power distances in different countries, the article provided some data's and survey's. What was interesting about this article is that in unequal societies, ordinary people, those without title, are positioned to believe themselves to be lower--- "ordinary people such as students felt they should not have aspirations beyond their rank...they felt it was important: adaptability, prudence (carefulness)." It's crazy to be able to see the perception of these different countries. Their thoughts were implemented that in a way they should never be able to go up in the social pyramid. That they stay in their place. Which transitions the power distances in not only in school amongst students, but workforce among co-workers, and so on. It's just very interesting, and it was definitely a different insight.