Edward,a U.S.businessman,visits India for a corporate meeting.While interacting with the board members,he addresses them by their first names,as he does with board members in the United States.However,the board members in India were offended by this gesture.Which of the following differences in culture does this scenario reveal?

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Power distance concerns the way the culture deals with unequal distribution of power and defines the amount of inequality that is normal. In countries with large power distances, the culture defines it as normal to maintain large differences in power. In countries with small power distances, people try to eliminate inequalities. In the United States, in most situations, people use one another's first names-behavior that would be disrespectful in other cultures.