Yes Christian, --- I believe that dignity (individualism) and face (collectivism) do intersect. Again, going back to my Middle Eastern experience, robbing a person of their dignity means robbing their family of their dignity, indeed their tribe. Similar in collectivistic societies, wounding a person's dignity reflects on their families, their groups, their contacts and can result in being ostracized from their groups entirely.

Source author: Marie Betts-Johnson mbj@ipicalifornia.com