International Management Spain's culture will be different from the U.S. culture in almost every way, but particularly in three of these areas. First, Spain's culture is diffuse, as compared to the U.S. specific type of relationship between individuals. Spanish individuals tend to be more generous in blending their personal space with the working environment, while in the U.S. these are generally better separated.

Second, Spain's culture favors particularism to the U.S. universalism, by which we understand that, in Spain's case, relationships are more important than rules and regulations. In the case of the U.S., obviously, rules and regulations form the backbone of the system and are part of the success of the American society. Finally, according to figure 4-5, Spain is neutral, while the U.S. has a more emotional culture, which means that the Americans tend to display...

Spanish individuals are known for their emotional behavior and for their society based on the relationship between individuals (which is obviously an emotional one). At the same time, the Americans tend to show their emotions less and I think this is more in line with the assumption that they tend to keep the personal and working spaces separate. I would also see, contrary to Trompenaars's assumptions, Spain more inclined towards communitarianism than towards individualism.
2. According to Trompenaars, Italy and Spain are different on all five dimensions that he includes in his model. I would argue rather differently and towards the fact that the two countries that share so much of their culture, origin of their…