From Taming Toxic People (David Gillespie, 2017) pp227-8
Between 1967 and 1973, Geert Hofstede from the personnel department of IBM International conducted an extraordinarily detailed survey of cultural differences in the more than seventy countries in which the company operated. He clustered the results along various dimensions, one of which was what he called Individualism versus Collectivism. The study has since been continuously updated by Geert and many other researchers and now provides a comprehensive database of the relative level of individualism in over 100 countries. It reveals that the most individualistic culture in the world is, wait for it … the United States, with a relative score of 91 out of 100. Second is Australia (90), third is the UK (89) and tied for fourth are Canada, Netherlands and Hungary all with a score of 80.
At the other end of the scale were the most collectivist countries. The least individualistic country is Guatemala (6), followed by El Salvador (8), Panama (11), Venezuela (12) and Colombia (13). In these countries, the community is a much higher priority than the individual. Harmony within the group to which you belong is paramount. The individual’s relationship with the group is always a higher priority than the needs of the individual or any other group.
There is also a very strong correlation between these individualism scores and the wealth of the nation. Wealthy nations tend to be more individualistic and poor nations tend to be more collective. It’s probably no coincidence that as Australia progressed through one of the greatest economic booms it has ever experienced in the first decade of the twenty-first century, the number of claims for mental stress against employers increased by twenty-five percent. Wealth drives individualism and individualism drives the free expression of psychopathy. And this in turn drives the numbers of victims of psychopathy. It is therefore reasonable to expect that as nations like China (currently scoring 20) become relatively more wealthy, the prevalence of expressed psychopathy is likely to increase substantially.
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