() refers to the societies where people tend to look after themselves and their family only. They want to succeed as individuals with very little concern for the group.
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You expected too much of her. She is a () hand in teaching English, anyway.
By high degree of () of a culture, it means that few people on the top of a society hold a lot of power which is more or less accepted by others.
We had thought Tom wouldn’t come to our party but he arrived out of the () yesterday.
A computer would be a () elephant to him, because he doesn’t know how to use it.