In the book of genesis, there is a famous passage where the prophet abraham speaks to god about the moral outrages in sodom and gomorrah. In France, nobody just calls up god directly in france. Here's another example of low power distance at work in israel. New is what linguists call a reactive token, meaning a word used in conversation by the party that's doing the listening. But new is an unusual reactive token because it's not neutral. It means, hurry up. Get to the point. We're a tiny country with zero power distance. What happens? Tell me. My friend milly says that since coming to america, she