Al Razim, a construction engineer, recently traveled to Germany to seek investors for his real estate project. During his meetings, he notickd that the Germans communicated with unusual directness, often giving a simple $\text{'}$No$\text{'}$ when they were not interested. This level of explicitness took him by surprise. This is because Germans are a $--$

culture.

$$Universalist culture

$$High$-$power distance culture

$$Low$-$context culture

$$Polychronic culture

$$High$-$context culture