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The Wiki Man

The cultural hodgepodge that is Europe

18 June 2016

9:00 AM

18 June 2016

9:00 AM

If Geert Hofstede’s name is familiar to you, it might be from pop-science articles explaining a spate of Korean airliner crashes in the 1990s. A widely held theory placed some of the blame on the hierarchical nature of Korean culture; this made the junior pilot reluctant to mention any mistakes made by his superior.

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