Tyrone Trotter in his paper tries to deduce the similarities and differences between three countries, Netherlands, Italy, and Saudi Arabia, and the USA using the Trompenaars seven dimensions of culture. The paper begins with the list of the seven dimensions of culture as illustrated by Trompenaars. Trotter develops a table that gives scores for the four countries against the seven dimensions of Trompenaars. Trotter then elaborates on the numbers in the table, briefly describing the relevance of the values and how they show the similarities and differences between the three countries and the USA. The question is, how vividly does he express his sentiments? In this response paper, I will disagree with the method he uses to present the information in the paper.
I do not agree with the way Trotter expressed the dimensions in the table. The problem with the table is that it does not explicitly detail what the values in the table mean. For example, in the first dimension of Universalistic vs Particularistic, Trotter gives Netherlands a score of 90. What does this mean? Trotter does not explicitly describe what the values should show. He ought to have explained the meaning of these scores by stating, for example, that a high score in the Universalistic vs Particularistic dimension means that the country is Universalistic, and a low score shows that the country is Particularistic. Therefore, the best way for Trotter to have presented the table above would have been in the manner shown in Note. Interpreted using the information from VlietI believe that, when Trotter is discussing how the countries differ from the USA, he fails to compare each country against the USA. He merely discusses the dimensions where the USA scores higher than the other countries instead. The best approach that he could have used to show the differences between the three countries and the USA would have been analyzing specific differences of individual countries against the USA. For example, there are no significant differences between the Netherlands, Italy, and the USA, but there are major disparities between Saudi Arabia and the USA, and thus, Trotter should have focused on this difference.
In the part where Trotter discusses the similarities between the three countries, I believe that he does not exhaustively depict the similarities between the three countries. Trotter only discusses the dimensions where the three countries obtain similar scores. However, since there are other dimensions where even two of these countries obtain close scores, Trotter should have included them in his analysis. Discussing similarities between the three nations should include the similarities between even two of the three countries, as that would have been an exhaustive description of the subject matter (Kovacs, Gaal, Szabo, 2007). The same criticism applies to the discussion of the similarities between the three countries and the USA. Trotter fails to show the reader how each of the three individual countries compares to the USA.
To conclude, Trotter gives the reader an overview of the topic in question. The table shows the rankings of different countries based on the seven dimensions of culture, but the writer fails to clearly explain the main ideas behind the contents of the table. Trotter fails to give the reader a clear understanding of the ways the three countries are similar or different from each other and how they compare to the USA as a reference nation.
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