Compare countries across eight behavioral scales with academic communicating scores and interactive radar charts.
Cultural Atlas visualizes cross-cultural differences on communicating, evaluating, persuading, leading, deciding, trusting, disagreeing, and scheduling. Communicating scores are grounded in Hall's high-/low-context research and Hofstede's Individualism index; select any two of 26 countries to compare.
Each scale runs from 0 to 99. Lower scores sit closer to the first pole, while higher scores sit closer to the second pole. These are tendencies, not rules for every individual.
How much meaning is carried by explicit words versus shared context, tone, and nonverbal cues.
People spell out expectations, background, and next steps directly.
People rely more on shared history, implication, status, and reading between the lines.
How openly people give criticism or corrective feedback.
Criticism is stated plainly and may be separated from the relationship.
Criticism is softened, implied, or delivered privately to protect harmony and face.
Whether arguments usually begin with theory and principles or with concrete cases and action.
People build the case from concepts, logic, and underlying rules before applications.
People start with examples, practical outcomes, and recommendations before broader theory.
How much distance is expected between leaders and the people they lead.
Managers are expected to be accessible, consultative, and relatively informal.
Authority, rank, and clear status differences are expected and respected.
How decisions are typically made once a group or organization needs to commit.
Decisions take longer up front because broad input and buy-in matter.
A leader or small group decides, often allowing faster commitment after consultation.
What people usually rely on when deciding whether someone is trustworthy.
Trust grows from reliability, competence, contracts, and doing good work together.
Trust grows from personal rapport, shared meals, introductions, and long-term relationships.
How comfortable people are with open debate, challenge, and conflict in group settings.
Disagreement can be direct and public without necessarily damaging the relationship.
Disagreement is handled carefully, indirectly, or offline to preserve harmony.
How people treat time, plans, deadlines, and interruptions.
Schedules, punctuality, sequencing, and deadlines are treated as firm commitments.
Plans adapt more readily around relationships, changing priorities, and context.
Cultural Atlas is an interactive country comparison tool for exploring cross-cultural working styles. It lets users compare two countries across eight behavioral scales, inspect cited score sources, and view country positions through radar charts and a choropleth-style map.
This module is designed to be embedded in the parent Next.js portfolio app at /projects/cultural-atlas.
