cultures The Nature of Reality and Truth This dimension distinguishes on a basis of their assumptions about what constitutes reality an truth. Reality can exist at physical, social and individual levels, and the assessment of what is real depends on scientific tests, social consensus or individual experience. The Anglo-saxon cultures believe that physical reality or truth is in facts and figures, and can be established only i logically proven and assessed by scientific tests. Other cultures rely more on feelings, intuition, and spirituality(Brazil, Asia). They regard a spiritual world as external reality. Social reality refers to the things that members of a cultural group agree upon, I.e., group identity, its values nature of relationships, the distribution of power, meaning of life, ideology, religion, and €ulture itself. Individual reality refers to what an individual has learned from one's own experience and believes to be true. Individual reality may not be shared with anyone else. Members of moralistic cultures seek truth and validation in a general philosophy, moral system, religion and tradition; pragmatic culturcs seek truth and validation in own experience, wisdom based on author ity, and legal system. Europeans were found to be more moralistic while Americans tended to be more pragmatic.