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ey nearly squeeze their cars guts out; forget penalty points and tickets from the police-what matters in Poland is honor and victory). Little Green me, desiring safety above all, swerved to the right, and the daredevil from behind zoomed past me, only to stop at the bumper of his next victim, who was most insolently driving in the left lane. Lets not demonize the Red culture, though. It deserves respect: it won Poland independence; it takes some credit in the victory over the communist regime; it allows Polish volleyball and handball teams, as well as skiers, to achieve notable successes despite less-than-competitive budgets for training; it enables Poles to set and obtain ambitious goals. Observe that our nation has quickly picked up sports and a healthy lifestyle like no other. The determination and discipline so characteristic of the Red culture are the reasons why nowhere outside of Poland have I met so many triathletes, marathon runners, and well-groomed women who, at the behest of Ewa Chodakowska, an extremely popular Polish fitness trainer, sweat out their last energy to have beautiful, slim bodies. (I would like to thank Ewa Chodakowska here for my own leg muscles, which she helped me develop and which saved my life while skiing this year.) Another great example of a Red national culture is the USA. The iconic "American dream" indicates perfectly what the culture is all about-setting audacious goals for the future, reaching the for "unreachable," being a pioneer, determination, and hard work. It is so Red. Yet the Redness of the American culture is streaked with Yellow: when I went to the States for the first time I was struck by enthusiasm, openness, and cheerfulness of Americans. When my American friends were talking about someone, the biggest compliment they could give was, "He is so much fun," or "She is hilarious," which shows how highly valued is the Yellow attitude. The Red-and-Yellow culture sets a great climate for innovation, creativity, bold risk management, and leadership-the factors which have driven the American economy for centuries. The chapter title implies that there is a question as to whether one is born a certain color or whether ones color is influenced by the Color of ones culture. If Poland is so Red, how am I still Green? Our individual Color is developed mainly as the result of our innate traits (our DNA) and the unique circumstances of our upbringing. Of course as a Polish citizen, I am influenced by our national culture, so I will be show certain typically Polish behaviors like bravery, blaming, or sarcasm. However, my Green behavioral blueprint will dominate the Red behaviors. On the other hand, the Color of a culture is not a simple sum of the Colors of its members. So the fact that the majority of the Polish people are Green doesnt make the culture Green. The reason underpinning this phenomenon is the fact that a national culture functions an organism itself, with its unique origin, experiences, attitudes and, eventually, Color. You can perceive this mechanism of personalization of groups when you watch a crowd. A crowd presents its unique characteristics, usually widely different from the characteristics of the individuals who make up the crowd. 2. A Chapter for the Green-and-Blues, , The Theoretical Foundations of the Model Everyone, everyday, uses various "filters" through which we perceive reality, organize data, and evaluate it. We see, hear, and feel differently, and have our unique experiences and personal system of values. As a result, every person produces a different image of reality; a different map of the same world. And if we have different maps, then naturally we will select different routes to get to our destinations, the result of which is a wide variety of human behaviors. In short, the difference between people lies in their PERCEPTION of reality. Every one of us looks at the world from a different perspective, which translates into an individual way (style) of managing that reality. Carl Gustav Jung, whose works I will refer to shortly, used to say that "The world does not exist as such, but such as we perceive it." The Colors represent four basic behavioral styles. These styles were identified by Jung as four preferences (so-called psychological functions), which he organized in the following contradictory pairs: -Thinking/Feeling -Perception/Intuition In Jolande Jacobis book, The Psychology of C. G. Jung, we learn that Jung understood psychological function to be "psychological activity, always the same in various circumstances and completely independent of temporary content. What is important is not what a person thinks, but the fact that they use the function of thinking, and not, for instance, intuition, when receiving and processing the content they receive from the outside or inside. It is above all about the way of capturing and processing m