Guidelines for the Four Synthetic Cultures:

DELTA CULTURE

  (High Masculinity)

 

Masculinity indicates the extent to which traditional masculine values of assertiveness, money and things prevail in a culture as contrasted to traditional feminine values of nurturance, quality of life, and people.

Delta Behaviors

 1. Language: 
  • Deltas will use the following words with a positive meaning: career, competition, fight, aggressive, assertive, success, winner, deserve, merit, balls, excel, force, big, hard, fast, and quantity.
  • Deltas will use the following words with a negative meaning: quality, caring, solidarity, modesty, compromise, help, love, grow, small, soft, slow, and tender.
2. The Cultural Grid: 
Behavior
Expectation
Physical contact, seductive and loud. Friendly
Physical distance, sarcastic and sadistic. Unfriendly
Tend to dominate discussion and be competitive. Trust
Openly critical, disparaging, and attempts to end the discussion. Distrust
Sports oriented and eager to debate every issue from all points of view. Interest
No eye contact, discourteous and drowsy Boredom
3. Barriers:
     
  • Language: Deltas are loud and verbal with a tendency to criticize and argue with others. 
  • Nonverbal: Deltas like physical contact, direct eye contact and animated gestures.
  • Stereotypes: Deltas are macho, hero and status oriented, and like winners.
  • Evaluation: Deltas are hard to please, tend to be overachievers, defensive and blame others for their mistakes.
  • Stress: Deltas are Type A personalities, generating stress through fast paced life styles. 
4.Gender Roles:
     
  • Role of gender: Men and more masculine women are typically more powerful and are highly favored in leadership roles. Passive and facilitating behaviors are tolerated for women but not for men. Men are stereotyped as strong and women as weak.
  • Role of women: Women tend to either be masculine in their personal style as "one of the guys" or completely subservient and docile, with few women in-between. Young and attractive women can use their beauty to win but without romantic illusions. Older or less attractive women are at a great disadvantage.
  • Role of men: Young, strong, tall and attractive men are idealized as heroes and are admired or envied by others. Men see life as a game played by men with women as cheerleaders.