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    Culture of Colombia VS Culture of Japan

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    This document compares and contrasts the cultures of Colombia and Germany. Colombia is considered a multi-active culture, while Germany is linear-active. Colombian culture values relationships, emotions, and flexibility with time, leading to procrastination and unpunctuality. German culture prioritizes logic, schedules, and completing tasks sequentially, making them punctual. Communication also differs, with Colombians preferring animated, overlapping talk and Germans favoring equal listening and speaking turns for information exchange. The onion model is used to analyze cultures at intrinsic and extrinsic levels including artifacts, norms, values, and basic assumptions.

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    This document compares and contrasts the cultures of Colombia and Germany. Colombia is considered a multi-active culture, while Germany is linear-active. Colombian culture values relationships, emotions, and flexibility with time, leading to procrastination and unpunctuality. German culture prioritizes logic, schedules, and completing tasks sequentially, making them punctual. Communication also differs, with Colombians preferring animated, overlapping talk and Germans favoring equal listening and speaking turns for information exchange. The onion model is used to analyze cultures at intrinsic and extrinsic levels including artifacts, norms, values, and basic assumptions.

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    This document compares and contrasts the cultures of Colombia and Germany. Colombia is considered a multi-active culture, while Germany is linear-active. Colombian culture values relationships, emotions, and flexibility with time, leading to procrastination and unpunctuality. German culture prioritizes logic, schedules, and completing tasks sequentially, making them punctual. Communication also differs, with Colombians preferring animated, overlapping talk and Germans favoring equal listening and speaking turns for information exchange. The onion model is used to analyze cultures at intrinsic and extrinsic levels including artifacts, norms, values, and basic assumptions.

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    Culture of Colombia VS Culture of Japan

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    This document compares and contrasts the cultures of Colombia and Germany. Colombia is considered a multi-active culture, while Germany is linear-active. Colombian culture values relationships, emotions, and flexibility with time, leading to procrastination and unpunctuality. German culture prioritizes logic, schedules, and completing tasks sequentially, making them punctual. Communication also differs, with Colombians preferring animated, overlapping talk and Germans favoring equal listening and speaking turns for information exchange. The onion model is used to analyze cultures at intrinsic and extrinsic levels including artifacts, norms, values, and basic assumptions.

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    CULTURE OF COLOMBIA VS CULTURE OF GERMANY

    CULTURE OF COLOMBIA VS CULTURE OF GERMANY

    KATERINE GÓMEZ ESCORCIA

    TALLER DE LENGUA Y CULTURA INGLESA NIVEL AVANZADO A

    GRUPO 14

    PROFESSOR JAIRO SOTO

    UNIVERSIDAD DEL ATLÁNTICO

    2018
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    CULTURE OF COLOMBIA VS CULTURE OF GERMANY

    The human beings are organized in societies that create a culture which show their

    beliefs, values, feelings, norms, behaviors and artifacts that identify them. Many researches

    about the culture have been done, providing theories that help to understand several cultures and

    compare them. One of them is the Onion-model, which explain the culture from an intrinsic and

    extrinsic perspective, considering different levels as artifacts and products situated in the outer

    layer which belong to explicit culture; in the middle layer are the norms and values which

    community holds; and finally in the inner layer people can see the basic assumptions and it

    belongs to intrinsic culture. Al these aspects are considered for studying and classifying the

    cultures in three groups: Linear Active, Multi- Active and Reactive.

    In view of the above, it is possible to analize and compare the Colombian and German

    culture, in order to establish similarities and differences between them. So, Colombia is

    considered Multi-active according to this model and Germany is located in the Linear Active

    group.

    Colombian people are talkative, relationships are best when they are face-to-face,

    attaching great importance to feelings. On his behalf, German people are truthful rather than

    diplomatic and do not fear confrontation, sticking to logic rather than emotions. 

    With regard to the time, the colombian people like to do many things at the same time

    and are tend to feel confined by agendas. They are flexible and frequently change their plans in

    order to accommodate other changes elsewhere. So, their concepts of time is non-linear. They

    are less interested in schedules or deadlines than linear-actives. It is for this reason,

    procrastination is common and the unpunctuality frequent. On the contrary, German people
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    consider very important to do an agend and follow it. They tend to be task-oriented, highly

    organised planners who complete action-chains by doing one thing at a time. So, they are

    punctual.

    In the communicational aspect there are some differences between Colombian and

    German people. For Colombian the conversation is roundabout and animated and they try to

    speak and listen at the same time. Interruptions are frequent, pauses in conversation are few.

    While, German speech is for information exchange and they talk and listen in equal

    proportions. They dislike over-loquacity.

    In conclusion, it is possible to analize the cultures following specific aspects as the Onion

    Model establishes. So, people can understand their culture and other ones from a perspective

    intrinsec and extrinsec in which the outer, middle and inner layers show the artefacts, product,

    norms, values and basic assumptions that people have according their culture.

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