Eastern cultures

The Golden Age of Love Marriage in Western Societies

Victor Karandashev
 

Love marriage appears to be a valuable cultural value in many countries throughout Europe, North America, Australia, and New Zealand, as well as many other modernized societies around the world. However, it was not always true in history. In the 20th century, […]

How People Experience Emotions in Collectivistic Cultures

Victor Karandashev
 

People in collectivistic societies commonly have a personal identity strongly integrated into their group. Accordingly, the cultural norms of collectivistic societies assume interdependent relations with each other and with a group, such as extended family and kin. Their relational values determine how […]

Cultural Values in Collectivistic Cultures

Victor Karandashev
 

Collectivism and individualism were among the cultural constructs and dimensions that early cross-cultural psychologists identified and elaborated on in the 1980s and 1990s (Hofstede, 1980/1984; Marsella et al., 1985; Triandis, 1995). Since then, researchers have widely used the cultural parameters of collectivism […]

What Are the Main World Cultures?

Victor Karandashev
 

What are the main cultures of the world? How global are they? And how diverse are they? These are among the key questions that cross-cultural researchers may ask. The West-East dichotomy has been a classification of the world cultures well-known by scholars […]