New Zealand

In this post, we will compare Colombia and New Zealand using the Hofstede model. Hofstede's model was created in 1080 by Geert Hofstede and it is used to distinguish differences between national cultures, the dimensions of culture and assess their impact on a business setting. This model proposes six dimensions that define culture: Power Distance, Individualism, Masculinity, Uncertainty avoidance, Long term orientation, and indulgence. POWER DISTANCE Power distance refers to the strength of a society’s social hierarchy. It measures the extent to which those people who are at the lower end of the hierarchy accept the fact that social stance or power is not distributed equally in the society. Both psychologists and sociologists use this measure. Researchers have found that people at the bottom of a social hierarchy tend to prefer a system that would distribute power equally. INDIVIDUALISM Individualism is an idea of society that champions individual liberty, creativity, and self-reli

  The Lewis model is an important tool created by Richard Lewis, it classified cultures of different countries in Multi-Active, Reactive and Linear-Active. According to Richard Lewis’s, New Zealand is a linear active culture because it is part of the English-speaking world that is conformed by North America, Britain, Australia, and Northern Europe, including Scandinavia and Germanic countries. As part of this group, New Zealand people are task-oriented and very organized to do plans. They try to do one thing at a time by using a lineal agenda with a lineal action chain. Also, Rationalism and science dominate their thinking more than religion. Talking about relationships, they prefer direct discussion, sticking to facts and figures from reliable sources, talk and listen in equal degrees and have limited body language.

  New Zealand Men are perceived as a pioneer type During the colonial period, men were perceived as rural, strong, emotionless, democratic, good with animals and machines that shared similarities with the stereotypical American frontier and the Australian Bushman. Today, many New Zealand men have these qualities, although most New Zealanders have lived in urban areas since the late 1800s. New Zealand women are independent Often, New Zealand women are perceived as more independent than women from other parts of the world. One of the supports of this stereotype is that New Zealand was the first country in the world to allow women to vote and the only one to have all its most important positions of state filed by women simultaneously. 

  In this post we will talk about Stereotypes in New Zealand.  But… ¿What are Stereotypes? A Stereotype is a belief set about characteristics, behaviors or living way of a country, city or people and these may be positive or negative.     New Zealand is not a civilized country If we type in google “New Zealand” the most pictures are about mountains, farms and rural areas so we can think that New Zealand is not a civilized country but this stereotype is false. New Zealand is like any civilized country. It has big cities like Auckland and Wellington but also has farms in small towns with just hundreds of inhabitants. New Zealand is a small country and is isolated from the rest of the world, maybe it is the cause of this stereotype but it has all the comforts that the rest of the world has. There are more sheep than people This is true, currently there are 6 sheep by person in New Zealand. Although it seems like a lot, it has decreased in recent years. In 1982 the sheep population was 7

  Hi 👋, I'm Juan Pablo Buelvas , I'm 21 years old, I'm a system engineering student in semester 9 at Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla-Colombia. In my free time program web pages and mobile apps and sometimes . I don't konw anything about New Zealand but  I want that we explore together this amazing and interstingadventure called " Adventure in New Zealand". New Zealand map also shows that it is constituted of group of islands significant of them are North Island and South Island separated by the Cook Strait. The smaller islands are Stewart Island, Chatham Island etc. Geographically, New Zealand is isolated country in the South Pacific Ocean. Australia is located about 2,000 km North-west of New Zealand. The climate type of New Zealand is temperate featured with mild weather system