Your Friend, While Describing Her Recent Trip to India, Concluded

Your friend, while describing her recent trip to India, concluded, "India is a very collectivistic culture, so all Indians possess an interdependent view of the self." Do you agree with this conclusion? Why or why not?

A) no, because people's self-views cannot be categorized so neatly into "independent" and "interdependent" categories
B) no, because Indians experience many more situations that affirm and reiterate independent versus interdependent aspects of self
C) no, because other features of Indian culture-such as competition for jobs and large disparities between the wealthy and the poor-mean that personal attributions are emphasized more than social bonds
D) yes, because Indian culture strongly encourages conformity, so Indian citizens are especially likely to adopt dominant cultural values such as interdependent self-views
E) yes, because Indian citizens all consume the same media and belong to the same institutions, all of which encourage an interdependent self-view