Table 1.

Values From the American Scale and Chinese Scale of Cultural Distance

Country	American		Chinese
	Cultural distance	95% CI	Cultural distance	95% CI
Algeria	.138	[.132, .144]	.221	[.216, .228]
Andorra	.115	[.109, .122]	.249	[.242, .258]
Argentina	.071	[.069, .075]	.150	[.146, .155]
Armenia	.154	[.149, .161]	.177	[.171, .183]
Australia	.035	[.033, .039]	.131	[.127, .135]
Azerbaijan	.175	[.169, .181]	.158	[.153, .165]
Bahrain	.167	[.161, .173]	.195	[.189, .201]
Belarus	.071	[.068, .075]	.101	[.097, .106]
Brazil	.072	[.069, .075]	.159	[.156, .163]
Bulgaria	.108	[.104, .114]	.116	[.111, .123]
Burkina Faso	.143	[.139, .149]	.153	[.149, .157]
Canada	.026	[.025, .028]	.135	[.132, .140]
Chile	.078	[.075, .081]	.156	[.152, .161]
China	.150	[.146, .155]	—	—
Colombia	.102	[.0987, .106]	.182	[.178, .186]
Cyprus	.057	[.055, .061]	.118	[.114, .122]
Ecuador	.109	[.105, .114]	.197	[.192, .204]
Egypt	.234	[.228, .241]	.186	[.183, .190]
Estonia	.117	[.112, .122]	.097	[.093, .102]
Ethiopia	.130	[.126, .136]	.153	[.149, .158]
Finland	.072	[.069, .076]	.176	[.171, .185]
France	.079	[.075, .085]	.181	[.175, .190]
Georgia	.143	[.139, .148]	.143	[.140, .146]
Germany	.080	[.078, .084]	.114	[.111, .117]
Ghana	.153	[.149, .158]	.172	[.169, .175]
Great Britain	.046	[.043, .051]	.172	[.166, .181]
Guatemala	.134	[.130, .140]	.192	[.186, .198]
Hong Kong	.090	[.088, .095]	.085	[.082, .090]
Hungary	.102	[.098, .108]	.125	[.121, .132]
India	.093	[.091, .097]	.106	[.104, .110]
Indonesia	.178	[.173, .184]	.167	[.163, .171]
Iran	.150	[.145, .156]	.125	[.122, .128]
Iraq	.162	[.158, .167]	.193	[.189, .197]
Italy	.061	[.059, .065]	.163	[.157, .169]
Japan	.115	[.112, .119]	.118	[.114, .122]
Jordan	.195	[.190, .200]	.193	[.189, .197]
Kazakhstan	.107	[.103, .111]	.099	[.095, .104]
Kuwait	.122	[.117, .127]	.163	[.157, .169]
Kyrgyzstan	.132	[.128, .137]	.161	[.156, .166]
Lebanon	.103	[.099, .109]	.175	[.169, .182]
Libya	.146	[.142, .151]	.198	[.194, .202]
Malaysia	.125	[.121, .129]	.156	[.153, .160]
Mali	.155	[.150, .161]	.155	[.151, .160]
Mexico	.077	[.074, .080]	.138	[.135, .141]
Moldova	.100	[.096, .105]	.133	[.128, .140]
Morocco	.149	[.145, .155]	.176	[.172, .180]
Netherlands	.079	[.076, .083]	.146	[.142, .150]
New Zealand	.053	[.050, .058]	.162	[.156, .168]
Nigeria	.130	[.126, .135]	.222	[.217, .227]
Norway	.124	[.118, .131]	.206	[.199, .214]
Pakistan	.178	[.173, .185]	.240	[.234, .246]
Palestine	.134	[.129, .140]	.193	[.187, .20]
Peru	.090	[.087, .094]	.142	[.139, .146]
Philippines	.144	[.139, .150]	.229	[.223, .236]
Poland	.076	[.074, .081]	.147	[.143, .151]
Qatar	.176	[.171, .183]	.262	[.255, .269]
Romania	.103	[.100, .108]	.140	[.137, .144]
Russia	.085	[.083, .088]	.089	[.086, .092]
Rwanda	.149	[.145, .154]	.143	[.140, .146]
Serbia and Montenegroa	.079	[.076, .084]	.166	[.160, .174]
Singapore	.038	[.036, .041]	.124	[.120, .129]
Slovenia	.077	[.074, .081]	.122	[.118, .126]
South Africa	.076	[.073, .079]	.138	[.135, .141]
South Korea	.092	[.089, .095]	.073	[.071, .077]
Spain	.074	[.071, .078]	.137	[.133, .142]
Sweden	.115	[.111, .121]	.186	[.180, .191]
Switzerland	.068	[.064, .074]	.179	[.173, .187]
Taiwan	.097	[.095, .101]	.092	[.089, .096]
Thailand	.129	[.125, .134]	.104	[.101, .107]
Trinidad and Tobago	.088	[.085, .093]	.187	[.183, .191]
Tunisia	.156	[.151, .163]	.179	[.175, .185]
Turkey	.120	[.117, .126]	.119	[.117, .122]
Ukraine	.086	[.083, .089]	.117	[.114, .123]
United States	—	—	.150	[.146, .155]
Uruguay	.084	[.081, .088]	.143	[.139, .148]
Uzbekistan	.150	[.146, .155]	.150	[.146, .155]
Viet Nam	.182	[.177, .188]	.057	[.055, .061]
Yemen	.200	[.193, .209]	.248	[.241, .256]
Zambia	.083	[.081, .088]	.162	[.158, .167]
Zimbabwe	.110	[.106, .115]	.220	[.216, .226]

Note: Cultural distances are differences in the cultural fixation index (CFST) between a given country and (a) the United States and (b) China. CI = confidence interval.

^aSerbia and Montenegro separated in 2006; however, they remain combined in the World Values Survey data.