A cultural syndrome can be identified when shared attitudes, be
liefs, norms, roles, values, and other such elements of subjective cul
ture, identified among those who share a language, historic period,
and geographic location, (a) are organized around a theme, (b) there
is evidence that the within-culture variance of these constructs is
small relative to the between-cultures variance, and (c) there is a
link between these patterns of subjective culture and geography.
This article reviews evidence suggesting that the collectivism and
individualism constructs are cultural syndromes.
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