The quote, "[The pilot’s] plane is moments from disaster. But he cannot escape the dynamic dictated to him by his culture in which subordinates must respect the dictates of their superiors." represents a major idea of how cultural PDI plays a vital role in plane crashes. In the second sentence of the quote, it says “that he can't escape the dynamic dictated to him by his culture”. This is the idea of cultural PDI and this causes mitigation and other various harmful things that can lead to a plane crash. First of all, Cultural PDI is Cultural Power Distance Index,which is the distribution of the power over individuals.A country with High cultural PDI have a more hierarchical system.A peer will often try to mitigate and try to be polite to avoid
