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by Gurnek Bains
Cultural DNA: The Psychology of Globalization
Title Page
Copyright
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Psychology of the Eurozone Crisis
We Are Not All the Same and That Is Good
Unconscious Bias
Greater Similarity and Difference at the Same Time
The Globalization Challenge for Business
Defining Cultural DNA
A Word About the Evidence
Why Bother with Differences?
Notes
Chapter 1: America—The Change Makers
Founder Effects
The Peopling of America
Positivity
Embracing the New
Assimilation over Accommodation
Mammon: Tamed and Untamed
The Triumph of Functionality
Increasing Plurality
Looking Ahead
Notes
Chapter 2: Sub-Saharan Africa: Under Nature's Shadow
How Modern Humans Populated Africa
Nature's Crucible: The Forces Shaping Africa's Cultural DNA
Community and Beyond
Naturalness: Expressed and Denied
In the Moment
Metaphor, Analogy, and the Connectedness of Things
The Big Man and His Alter Ego
Looking Ahead
Notes
Chapter 3: India: Beyond This World
The Peopling of India
The Toba Event
The Forces That Have Shaped India's Cultural DNA
Ahimsa
Individual Paths
Inner Directedness
Horizontal Stratification
Mathematics: The Art of the Hindus
Ritualistic Thinking
Looking Ahead
Notes
Chapter 4: The Middle East: Ambivalence and Uncertainty in the Modern Age
How Modern Humans Populated the Middle East
Deserts and Civilization: The Twin Drivers of Middle Eastern Cultural DNA
The Rules of Life
The Commercial Instinct
The Best Ideas in the World
The Honor–Modesty System
The Other Sex
Concentric Circles of Belonging
Managing Contradictions and Tensions
Notes
Chapter 5: China: The Seekers of Harmony
The Peopling of China
The Forces That have Shaped China's DNA
The Drive for Harmony
The Authoritarian Compact
Concrete and Practical Inventiveness
Fast Slow
Bounded Sociability and Empathy
The Art of Copying
Future Considerations
Notes
Chapter 6: Europe: The Equal Society
The Forces that have Shaped European Cultural DNA
Equality and Elitism
Bounded Individualism
Analyisis and Structured Planning
Reserved Sociability
The Diminishing Drive for Mastery
The Opportunities and Challenges for European Culture
Notes
Chapter 7: The Far Continents
Latin America—The Ever-Changing Melting Pot
Australia: Mateship in a Far-Off Land
Notes
Conclusions
Index
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CULTURAL
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THE PSYCHOLOGY OF GLOBALIZATION
GURNEK BAINS
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