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Puerto Rico

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Hofstede’s strongest signals are short-term oriented tendencies on Long-Term Orientation (0) and indulgent tendencies on Indulgence (90). The Hall communication-context indicator is unavailable for this country in the current dataset.

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Puerto Rico has its highest Hofstede score in Indulgence (90) and its lowest score in Long-Term Orientation (0). This profile within Caribbean shows how authority, identity, risk, time orientation, competition, and self-expression combine in one national cultural snapshot.

Very short-term oriented · #197 of 197

Puerto Rico scores 0 on Long-Term Orientation, ranking #197 of 197 in the dataset. That is 36.5 points below the global average and 12 points below the Caribbean regional average.

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Indulgence

Very indulgent · #3 of 195

Puerto Rico scores 90 on Indulgence, ranking #3 of 195 in the dataset. That is 42.2 points above the global average and 11.2 points above the Caribbean regional average.

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Sources and methodology

Sources adapted from the Hofstede and Hall references used in the shared dataset. The communication-context score shown on this site is a transparent proxy calculated as 0.70 × (100 − IDV) + 0.30 × PDI; it is not a score directly measured by Hall.

Hofstede dimensions and country data

Hofstede, G., Hofstede, G. J., & Minkov, M. (2010). Cultures and Organizations: Software of the Mind (3rd ed.). McGraw-Hill.
Hofstede, G. (2001). Culture’s Consequences: Comparing Values, Behaviors, Institutions, and Organizations Across Nations (2nd ed.). Sage.
Minkov, M. (2007). What Makes Us Different and Similar: A New Interpretation of the World Values Survey and Other Cross-Cultural Data. Klasika i Stil.
The first four Hofstede dimensions draw on IBM employee studies. Long-term orientation and indulgence draw on later cross-cultural survey research, including the Chinese Value Survey and World Values Survey, as summarized in the sources above.

Hall’s communication-context framework

Hall, E. T. (1976). Beyond Culture. Anchor Books.
Hall, E. T., & Hall, M. R. (1990). Understanding Cultural Differences: Germans, French and Americans. Intercultural Press.
Kittler, M. G., Rygl, D., & Mackinnon, A. (2011). Beyond Culture or Beyond Control? Reviewing the Use of Hall’s High-/Low-Context Concept. International Journal of Cross Cultural Management.
Cardon, P. W. (2008). A Critique of Hall’s Contexting Model: A Meta-Analysis of Literature on Intercultural Business and Technical Communication. Journal of Business and Technical Communication.
Broeder, P. (2021). Communicating Distances and High- and Low-Context Cultures. Language and Intercultural Communication.
Lamino, P. P., & Diaz, J. (2025). Intercultural Competencies: Understanding High- vs. Low-Context Cultures. University of Florida IFAS Extension (AEC813).

Limits and critical perspectives

McSweeney, B. (2015). Hall, Hofstede, Huntington, Trompenaars, GLOBE: Common Foundations, Common Flaws. In Transculturalism and Business in the BRIC States.
Country scores and the communication-context indicator are broad, national-level summaries. They do not predict an individual’s behaviour and should be interpreted with attention to local, organizational, regional, and personal variation.

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