Welcome to this journey through the great south african culture!
In this blog you’ll learn many things about the south african culture: the stereotypes that exist there, the role women have, how they behave regarding culture models and the differences and similarities they share with colombian culture!
I hope you enjoy it!
South African Subcultures
As we have seen throughtout this blog, culture is not an exact formula, but rather a wide range of behavior and customs. Therefore, is not a surprise that inside cultures there are smaller groups that have their own identity, values and practices, often related to youth, gender, sexuality, social class, nationality or religion (Venter &…
Colombia and South Africa according to the Lewis Model
The Lewis Model was developed in the 1990s by Richard D. Lewis after visiting 135 countries and working in more than 20 of them. He came to the conclusion that humans can be divided into 3 clear categories, based not on nationality or religion but on behavior. He named his typologies Linear-active, Multi-active and Reactive. Lewis considered that other…
Another way to know cultures: Hofstede’s Dimensions
Hofstede’s cultural dimensions theory is a framework of cross-cultural communication developed by Professor Geert Hofstede, Gert Jan Hofstede, Michael Minkov and their research teams. The professor defines cultured as “the collective programming of the mind distinguishing the members of one group or category of people from others”. Therefore culture could be interpreted as a collective identity…
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