1. Cultural Dimensions

2. Power distance - Individual level: cultural dimensions versus individual personalities
Hofstede's cultural dimensions enable users to distinguish countries but are not about differences between members of societies

3. Hofstede's cultural dimensions theory
'Hofstede's cultural dimensions theory' is a framework for cross-cultural communication, developed by Geert Hofstede. It describes the effects of a society's culture on the values of its members, and how these values relate to behavior, using a structure derived from factor analysis. The theory has been widely used in several fields as a paradigm (experimental)|paradigm for research, particularly in cross-cultural psychology, international management, and cross-cultural communication.

4. Hofstede's cultural dimensions theory - Correlations of values with other country differences
They have studied the correlation between countries' cultural dimensions and their predominant religion,Predominate is here defined as over 50% of the country's population is identified as a member of that religion based on the World Factbook 2002

5. Hofstede's cultural dimensions theory - International communication
All the levels in communication are affected by cultural dimensions: verbals (words and language itself), Nonverbal communication|non verbals (body language, gestures) and etiquette do's and don'ts (clothing, gift-giving, dining, customs and protocol)

6. Hofstede's cultural dimensions theory - Limitations of Hofstede's model
The Academy of Management Review, 33(4):885–904] Ailon finds inconsistencies at the level of both theory and methodology and cautions against an uncritical reading of Hofstede's cultural dimensions.

7. Hofstede's cultural dimensions theory - Questionable choice of national level
Aside from Hofstede's 5 cultural dimensions, there are other factors on which culture can be analyzed. There are other levels for assessing culture. These levels are overlooked often because of the nature of the construction of these levels.

8. History of Iraq (2003–11) - Cultural dimensions
As cultural scientist Roland Benedikter poses in his book on Sustainable Democratization of IraqRoland Benedikter, Nachhaltige Demokratisierung des Irak? (Sustainable Democratization of Iraq? Socio-cultural perspectives), Passagen Verlag Vienna pp and in a series of essays, one main cause of the ongoing problems of pacification seems to consist in the fact that the socio-cultural dimensions of sustainability, including questions of ethnicity, religion and minority issues, have not been included appropriately in the overall democratization strategies so far.

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