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Summary Of When Culture Stand By Richard Lewis

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My Views On Lewis Chart A British linguist who can speaks ten languages named Richard Lewis wrote a book called “When Culture Collide”. In this book, Lewis divided countries in relation to three categories: Linear-actives, Multi-actives and Reactive. People from Linear-active countries talk half of the time, like planning and organizing everything. They plan ahead step by step and they do one thing at a time. They stick to facts and like restrained body language. People from Multi-active countries talk most of the time and do many things at once according to the relative thrill or importance that each appointment brings with it. They feel before facts and they use unrestrained body language. People from reactive countries listen most of the …show more content…

Each person in different positions will imperceptibly form the character required by this post. For example, politicians can talk about their views in public places by using passionate body language to motivate the audience, which is similar to the second category. Although lawyers are not as humorous as politicians, they often listen while talking. They should know what their opponent thinks and then hit back, they are good at hiding their emotions which is similar to the first category. When you come to doctor’s, you can find that the doctor listen quietly most of the time because they have to know more about their patients, which is similar to the third category. To sum up, Lewis chart can intuitively reflect the characteristics of national character in some countries. This makes the vast majority of readers to understand and compare the different features of different countries in order to gain insight into the country’s culture. This can also avoid embarrassment in the process of communicating with the country’s nationals. However, this chart does not distinguish the differences in regional characteristics of the country, thus creates limitations. It is possible for the author to stand at his national perspective to analyze these countries, possibly with

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