Culture Dimensions of a Language:
Urdu is spoken mostly in Pakistan, and it seems that the culture in Pakistan, and the culture where I come from “Afghanistan” are pretty similar in the areas of dimensions.
Both Pakistan and Afghanistan score high in power distance, people do not consider themselves equal in both cultures regardless of formal positions in both these countries the power is in the hands of men. Also both countries are very high in collectivism and believe in power of union and togetherness rather than individualism.
Afghanistan scores a bit higher in masculinity vs. femininity because women in Afghanistan are much less powerful then women in Pakistan and are seen more naive. People in Afghanistan emphasize more in gender differences and women do not have same values as men.
whereas, in Pakistan it is not always like that, and in most places women have the same values and men in their society. Afghanistan is very low in uncertainty avoidance and has high tolerance for ambiguous situations. however, Pakistan is a little higher than my country in in this area.
As far as the language is concern, both countries think about long-term relationships while speaking than short-term. Urdu language is not very straight to the point, but more of explanatory. Mutual respect and understanding is very important for this culture, and they do not usually say no in a direct way because they care more about one's feelings and try to understand them.
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