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A cross-cultural comparison was made between Dogmatism scores of British and Hong Kong Chinese students. The mean D score of Hong Kong subjects was significantly higher than the mean score of British subjects. It is suggested that Hong Kong subjects may be more closed-minded than British subjects, or they may be more acquiescent. For Chinese-English bilingual subjects the mean score on a Chinese translation of the D scale was significantly higher than the mean score on the English language scale. This last finding is considered to have important implications for cross-cultural measurement using verbal instruments, and it may also be relevant to studies in linguistic relativity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]