Scenario: Frankfurter Friday
Betty Cleveland is the vice president of Frankfurter Friday, a highly successful hot dog joint in Oceania. Her company decides to expand to Asia and identifies China as the ideal market. Before she leaves for China, she studies their culture extensively and discovers that the number four is considered extremely unlucky, that not everybody is fluent in China's official language-Mandarin-and that punctuality is a highly valued trait in the country.
-Once in China,Betty witnesses the ease with which Chinese employees incorporate change and new ideas into their work-unlike the people of Oceania who prefer strong systems of rules and guidelines.Which of the following statements within Hofstede's framework is consistent with her observation?

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Betty's observation that Chinese employees easily incorporate new ideas and change shows that China scores low on the uncertainty avoidance dimension, which is the extent to which a society is uncomfortable with ambiguity, uncertainty, and unstructured situations. In low uncertainty avoidance cultures like China, individuals are more willing to take risks and are less dependent on rules and guidelines. The other options (B, C, and D) are not supported by the given scenario or Hofstede's framework.

Scenario: Frankfurter Friday Betty Cleveland Is the Vice President of Frankfurter Friday, a Frankfurter