Geert Hofstede views culture as the software of the mind.
What does that mean?
What is software?
- a list of instructions that tell a computer what to do.
All metaphorical comparisons are not perfect. How is culture not like software?
If culture is software, who programmed us?
Source: Cultures and Organizations: Software for the Mind, Third Edition
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