Topic > Power Distance in Japanese Culture - 633

India scores 56 on PDI, thus making it a masculine society. Advertising success, power and wealth is widely practiced throughout the country. This may be due to the fact that India is a country that practiced caste system in ancient times, always maintaining a huge boundary between “haves” and “have nots”. However, as the nation is very spiritual, its culture teaches lessons on the value of humility and abstinence. Japan, on the other hand, is the second highest nation in masculinity with a score of 95. In Japanese society men are considered superior to women where men work while women stay at home as housewives. Males are taught to be strong and encouraged to assert control and dominance over children and women. This is something that is fostered from a young age in Japanese boys