Colombian culture against Italian culture

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...

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...

  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...