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This is the extent to which the people of a particular culture are willing to accept unequal power distribution. For design purposes, what could work well in high power distance countries would be introducing visuals, expressions and images with authoritative body language, that are informative and guiding. Whereas low power distance cultures may prefer activities of daily life, popular images, symbols and colours.

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