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Entry 5: Subcultures in Italy

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Subcultures in Italy. In this entry we're going to talk about subcultures in Italy, specifically a pop and tribes subcultures.I hope you like it :) Pop culture  ROCKERS I taly was traditionally dominated by melodic ballads that emerged from its popular tradition. After this the first rock bands appeared, the musical genre was born at the beginning of the 1960s from the United States. The first songs of rock and roll were interpretative of songs that already existed, that is to say bands of covers. In the decade of 1990, the Italian bands of alternative rock and metal began to be very outstanding worldwide. At the beginning of the 21st century, the rock of Italy had become one of the most listened to in the world. In conclusion, rock is a subculture that has been presented in Italy for years, and today continues to grow, rock is a way of expressing ideas, styles, thoughts for people and is considered a lifestyle. Emos Emo is a subculture that had its origins in the mid-1980s in the ...
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Entry 4: Analisys of Colombian and Italian culture through Hofstede model

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  Analisys of Colombian and Italian culture through Hofstede model If we start to analize and compare Colombian a Italian culture, we could find that there are few diferences and things in common. Through Hofstede model, we can observe that our Country Colombia has a score of 67 in the dimension of Power distance, this score can be consider as intermediate, and the reason of this is that Colombians are familiarized with inequality, they believe that inequality among people are a simply fact of life, and we think that this happen because in the whole colombia's history there're l eaders who have a lot of concentrated power compared to others Colombians. Meanwhile. In Italy has a score of 50, a lower score compared with Colombia and this is because Italians  tends to prefer equality and a decentralisation of power and decision-making. Likewise, Individualism dimension in Italy has a score of 76, a high score compared with Colombia that has 13, Italians are 'me' centered...
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Entry 3: What type of culture have Italy?

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What type of culture have Italy? According to Lewis model the italian culture is placed between linear and multiactive categories because Italians are oriented in the activities they do in their daily routine and talk most of the time, this mean that Italians tend to be loquacious with eachother. This is related with the fact that communication is importan in the business in this country, also Italians are emotional and they usually show their emotions as something normal to others and italian people often do many activities at the same time. What would happen if an Italian do a study abroad in Barranquilla-Colombia?  An Italian who is spending time or living in Barranquilla may have problems with noise or with the parties that take place there since Colombia, specially Barranquilla is characterized with a high level of indulgence compared with the majority of cities in Italy. The people in Italy tend to be a little more calm than Colombians, also in Colombia they tend to be more j...
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Entry 1: A meaningful drawing

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HAVE YOU EVER HAD THIS IDEALS ABOUT ITALIAN CULTURE? This drawing represent those tipicall stereotypes that people commonly have when they think about Italy. In the drawing we can observe the Spaghetti and Pizza, this represent the idea that people have of Italians that they like too much and they know perfectly how to prepare spaghetti and Pizza. This ideal may come from the fact that Italy is recognized because of their excellent dishes with pasta and also their delicious Pizza, but we have to make conciense that not all Italian should like and know how to prepare spaghetti and Pizza just because they are Italian. The mafia is a delicated topic but Italy has been pointed out as a mafia country, and this may happen because there are many movie and books that show an exagerated point of view of this problematic to readers and viewers that it's not true at all, this is just fiction most of the time. Also we can identify in the drawing that gesture with the hand wich is used many tim...
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Entry 2: Genders stereotypes in Colombian and Italian culture.

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  All of us know that gender stereotypes exist since ever and every culture in any country may have those ideals, in this entry on this post we're going to focus on those stereotypes that are related with the genre especially in our country Colombia and the other country we choose which is Italy. Hope you find it interesting :). Did you know that genders stereotypes in television are common in both countries? Lets talk about comercials, in these countries we can see a lot of content that incite the spreading of genders stereorypes like women doing home labors and men arriving from their job, or women cooking to sell new kitchen products, or men appearing in comercials that are related to workout and others. We find two studies that treat gender stereotypes in comercials in each country, the first study made by Adrian and Virginia (2009) talk about how comercials in Italy still have this tendance to show to viewers a tipically gender roles , they found that males were more likely to...
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Introducing ourselves :)

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  H i readers! 😄  I'm Carlos Julio and I'm 20 years old my major is Civil engineering. there are many things that I like to do, those things are listen to music, play video games and also I like to read about math problems. I usually listen to many music genres, like rock, indie, reggaeton and others, also there are games that I like a lot like League of Legends, Grand Theft Auto and many others. I usually read about math problems because I'm passionate about math, I like them since I was in primary school and sometimes in my free time I like to solve non-complex math exercises. My name is Cristian Andrés Beleño Gamboa, I am a civil engineering student, I am in the 7th semester of this career which I really liked, I am very passionate about music and the arts in general, I do portraits and played various instruments, such as the guitar,  piano and bass, I really like going out with friends and also training since I practice a sport called Rugby, I find Italian culture ve...
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