Q. 1. Cultural diversity can be defined as the differences that exist in people in terms of culture. “Culture” on the other hand is refers to the attitudes and behavior that are characteristic of a particular social group or organization. Also culture can be defined as an aggregate of ideas, values and customs passed down from one generation to another generation of a given ethnic group of people. On the other hand “Dimensions of cultural diversity” can be referred to as the attributes through which certain ethnic groups of people are distinguished with. These properties that can bring diversity in culture include: Knowledge or intelligence, religion, laws, customs or norms, language and moral values (Melkman and Trotman, 2005). They argued that the dimensions of cultural diversity can be divided into: Power distance; individualism; masculinity; uncertainty avoidance and long-term orientation. Firstly, they argued that power distances refer to the extent at which equality and inequality is agreed upon by the powerful and the less powerful in the society. In addition, they argued that a low power distance ranking indicates that the society focuses on equality for every individual in that society while a high ranking power distance signifies for the presence of inequality in the society.
