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Question: what are the differences between individualistic and collectivistic cultures? what are some individualistic countries and what are some collective countries? Also say how can understanding cultures help to create more equality in societies. What are the advantages of equality within families of low income countries?

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Individualistic Culture is something where an individual's ideas and belief's are prioritized in contrast to Collectivistic culture where a group's mentality is into consideration.Differences between individualistic and collectivistic culture are stated below:

Individualistic Culture	Collectivistic Culture
Individuals take care of themselves and their immediate families	Individuals come together as a group and work for the betterment and identity of the group
People have right to privacy	Private life of an individual doesn't exists or is rare to see
People have their personal opinions and views	Opinions are given on a whole as a group
People are "I" conscious	People are "We" Conscious
People are educate and they focus on how to learn	People are educated focusing on how to do
Individuals sets goals for oneself	Collective goals, which goal of the group is the goal of each person in the group
People prefer working independently	People prefer working in groups
Individual are competitive about everything with others	People live in harmony with others.
Individual ownership to all assets and property	Shared ownership to assets and property within the group
Task is more important than relationships	Relations are more important than tasks.
Communication is direct and explicit	Communication is complex and intuitive.

Individualistic Countries and Collectivistic Countries are listed below:

Individualistic Countries -
United States of America
Australia
South Africa
Great Britain
Ireland
Canada
Germany
Netherlands

Collectivistic Countries -
China
Korea
Indonesia
Japan
Costa Rica
Panama
Venezuela
Pakistan

With the diversity in religions, languages and economy in the society, culture plays a vital role in creating equality.Building cross-cultural relationships, understanding and communicating with people with different cultures, will help people to build stronger alliances and reduce the difference among different strata of the societies.More number of people from different groups should come together and work. The larger groups with members from different cultures should have common goal rather than working in isolation.Focus should be given on the strengths of each group rather than bringing up their weaknesses. Each group has certain abilities which should be used in betterment of the larger community. This would help us in overcoming the ethnic and racial discrimination which on contrary arise lack of opportunities, misunderstandings, etc.Cultural diversity should be appreciated giving all members equal participation in different process like decision making, implementation, etc.

Advantages of equality within families of low income countries is that it will give a sustainable development. Less scope for violence and harassment. Women can go out to work, contributing to the family income.People will be more productive and confident in their tasks. The society will be more tolerant and less fearful giving a satisfactory life to all.