2.5.1. Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions model.
Common: middle rate of power distance and high level of individualism.
Differences: the UK has higher level of masculinity, uncertainty avoidance and long term orientation in contrast to Netherlands.
2.5.2. Hall’s Cultural Dimensions model
Netherlands and the UK have the same Hall’s Cultural Dimensions: low-context, monochronism, high person territoriality.
2.5.3. R.Lewis’s Model of Culture
The UK is very close to linear active culture as Netherlands but the second one “absorbs” some features of multi active cultures.
2.5.4. Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck’s Model of Culture
The relationship with nature: the UK and Netherlands, two little countries, are forced to remember and carry about nature, develop eco-projects.
Duty towards others: British personal life is more closed than Dutch, British people are more reserved.
Mode of activity: Dutch do just what they want. And for British people the concept of debt is very important.
Privacy of space: in the Netherlands, private ownership of land does not exist, and in Britain privet farming is very extended.
Temporal orientation: almost all Dutch live for today, and British remember the past and think about future.
