Kelvin Paez
Based upon the book "Outliers: The Story of Success" by Malcolm Gladwell he talks about how in Korea at a point of time, had a bad reputation of plane crashes. Due to their high-power distance culture in which people who had less power on the plane would not be affirmative and demanding on desire situations. Resulting, into miscommunication with the pilot and to a demise of many lives lost due to a plane crash. At times like these, we question these high-power distance cultures and when it should and should not be used.
Primarily, it should be acceptable to question authority when one believes that he/she is wrong especially, in dire situations. When one is putting lives on the line such a pilot in a plane crashing scenario, it is a necessity to correct the pilot if he is doing something false on his part. This would be the time in which one has to eliminate this high-power distance culture into a low-power one, and treat them just as you would treat anyone else. This has to be done if, people are in an extreme situation.
Furthermore, not defying authority should be acceptable in situations such as a lecture. The person who is giving a lecture most likely has more knowledge about this topic more than anyone else in the class. Trying to defy him or question is knowledge would not be appropriate. However, this is only in most cases because there can be situations in which teachers can be completely wrong.
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