LEWIS MODEL

LEWIS MODEL

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-distribution-of-the-participants-according-to-the-Lewis-Model-of-Cultural-Categories_fig5_320552166

According to the Lewis Model, cultures can be classified in Linear-active, multi-active and reactive. Depending on the characteristics a culture will fit in one dimension. Qatar can be considered as a multi-active because is a warm, emotional, loquacious, impulsive, collective, religious, unpunctually and flexible (in some cases) culture.

If a Qatari Citizen moves to Barranquilla, he only would get some problems depending on how much he respects|follows his religion, because even when both cultures are similar in some aspects, have certain differences that would make him feel weird. For example, the clothes, in Qatar, women don’t use mini-skirts or tank tops but in Barranquilla that’s normal. If the Qatari is more open minded, he would feel interested in discovering a culture less restricted, but, if he is sensitive to the Islamic Law, he would feel uncomfortable.