Lewis Model is Useful
This article from Gus Lubin talks about three different categories of the Lewis model and some opinions from Richard Lewis. The three categories are linear-active, multi-active and reactive. The author Gus Lubin also mentioned about people’s thought of Lewis, and people regard his book “When Cultures Collide” as an authoritative roadmap to navigating the world’s economy.(Lubin 2013, p.1) There are also two chart in this article, one explains the world, the another gets some details on the categories. The two charts can help us understand more about different cultures can make different behaviors come into being.
Speaking personally, I think the Lewis model is believable. He can speak ten languages, and he is also a world …show more content…
The reason why Chinese in the reactive group is complicated. It depends on the cultural atmosphere, environment, the custom and the history. We Chinese also say that we have Chinese national spirit and we inherit the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation well. This also prove that culture, custom and history can have an important influence to us. We are reactive because we grow up in Chinese, we affected by the culture, we learn most things in Chinese style. We talk, we listen, we react in Chinese way. As the category “reactive” describes, we prioritize courtesy and respect , listen quietly and calmly to our interlocutors and reacting carefully to the other side’s proposals, we do act like this. The main reason is our nation think this is the best way to treat things and people. Many years ago Japanese came to China and learned a lot of things, for example, they learn culture, system, religion, and even Chinese characters. They brought these back to their country, and I believe that kinds of things also affected Japanese, I guess these are some part of reasons why Japanese is in the group of reactive. The kind of cultural things are difficult to change, it’s deep-rooted. Lewis said, “By focusing on the cultural roots of national behavior, both in society and business, we can foresee and calculate with a surprising degree of accuracy how others will react to our plans for them, and we can make certain …show more content…
The elders always tell us to show our courtesy when we meet people, the teachers always tell us to being quiet when we are in the classroom, our parents always tell us not to refuse someone else directly. Everyone around us seems like teaching what we should do. They try to put their thoughts and dreams on us. These make us be used to these behaviors. For example, we are afraid of teachers and we don’t like to express ourselves, even when teacher ask questions, we don’t want to be the first to answer and sometimes we do not even know why we should go to school.Chinese style of education do have an effect on our behavior. Imagine that we grow up in America instead of this kind of background, we might be more outgoing and active instead of restrained. Also, if our parents and teachers are open, and we grow up in that kind of environment, we may not be the reactive type. Therefore, we are the reactive type because we live in China, we study in China, and most Chinese parents educate us in that way, most Chinese teachers educate us in that way, that is why we most Chinese are reactive type. In my opinion, we can study a nation or a country by the way they
This article from Gus Lubin talks about three different categories of the Lewis model and some opinions from Richard Lewis. The three categories are linear-active, multi-active and reactive. The author Gus Lubin also mentioned about people’s thought of Lewis, and people regard his book “When Cultures Collide” as an authoritative roadmap to navigating the world’s economy.(Lubin 2013, p.1) There are also two chart in this article, one explains the world, the another gets some details on the categories. The two charts can help us understand more about different cultures can make different behaviors come into being.
Speaking personally, I think the Lewis model is believable. He can speak ten languages, and he is also a world …show more content…
The reason why Chinese in the reactive group is complicated. It depends on the cultural atmosphere, environment, the custom and the history. We Chinese also say that we have Chinese national spirit and we inherit the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation well. This also prove that culture, custom and history can have an important influence to us. We are reactive because we grow up in Chinese, we affected by the culture, we learn most things in Chinese style. We talk, we listen, we react in Chinese way. As the category “reactive” describes, we prioritize courtesy and respect , listen quietly and calmly to our interlocutors and reacting carefully to the other side’s proposals, we do act like this. The main reason is our nation think this is the best way to treat things and people. Many years ago Japanese came to China and learned a lot of things, for example, they learn culture, system, religion, and even Chinese characters. They brought these back to their country, and I believe that kinds of things also affected Japanese, I guess these are some part of reasons why Japanese is in the group of reactive. The kind of cultural things are difficult to change, it’s deep-rooted. Lewis said, “By focusing on the cultural roots of national behavior, both in society and business, we can foresee and calculate with a surprising degree of accuracy how others will react to our plans for them, and we can make certain …show more content…
The elders always tell us to show our courtesy when we meet people, the teachers always tell us to being quiet when we are in the classroom, our parents always tell us not to refuse someone else directly. Everyone around us seems like teaching what we should do. They try to put their thoughts and dreams on us. These make us be used to these behaviors. For example, we are afraid of teachers and we don’t like to express ourselves, even when teacher ask questions, we don’t want to be the first to answer and sometimes we do not even know why we should go to school.Chinese style of education do have an effect on our behavior. Imagine that we grow up in America instead of this kind of background, we might be more outgoing and active instead of restrained. Also, if our parents and teachers are open, and we grow up in that kind of environment, we may not be the reactive type. Therefore, we are the reactive type because we live in China, we study in China, and most Chinese parents educate us in that way, most Chinese teachers educate us in that way, that is why we most Chinese are reactive type. In my opinion, we can study a nation or a country by the way they