The Hofstede Model of Philippines

   The Hofstede Model is a measure that score a culture based on six criteria that are: Power Distance, Individualism, Masculinity, Uncertainty Avoidance, Long Term Orientation and Indulgence.

The graphic that you see at the beggining is a comparison of the score that I imagine have this culture and the other are the score based on a page of Hofstede Insights.

Let's start with the first criteria, the scores are very different because I thought that the Phillipine people don't accept inequality but it seems that is the contrary. Another difference is based on the second criteria, in my opinion this culture is very individualistic but in reality is the oppositive. The rest of the criterias are very similar. What we can conclude from this comparison is that until we know the culture by other means than the internet, we shouldn't generalize our concept of that culture.

Comparison between Colombian and Philippine culture

Based on this graphic we can compare the culture of this two countries. The blue bars are from Colombia and the purple bars from Philippines. At first we can see that in Colombia is less common to accept inequalities on the other hand in Philippines is more normal. However, they have a similarity on the Masculinity criteria, so this means that both culture think that success and achievement are important. In conclusion, even though these cultures belong to different cultural groups according to the Lewis Model, they share certain similarities when we see it from the point of view of the Hofstede Model.