Discuss why the United States is considered a low-context culture.
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The United States is low-context because, in this country, verbal messages are elaborate and highly specific, and they tend to be highly detailed and redundant as well. Further, in the United States, one speaks of a person as having attributes independent of circumstances or of personal relations, a component of low-context values.
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