Knowing New Zealand

Subcultures in New Zealand Subcultures are groups of people with distinctive behaviors and beliefs within a dominant culture that they are part of. As in the rest of the world, there are a lot of subcultures in New Zealand but in this post, we will show 2 different subcultures. Maori Maori is an indigenous ethnic with a population of 4.5 million people, which means 15% of New Zealand's population. They were the first settlers of New Zealand and they were from Hawaiki island. Haka is their ritual dance and uses tribal tattoos in their face and body to decorate it. Also, they are famous for their cooking method called hangi, in this method, they build ovens with hot stones.    Hipsters This is a group of people commonly under the age of 30, Although they love to have the last technological innovations, they are characterized to adopt a lifestyle and interest associated with Vintage and independent . They use to listen to Jazz and indie music and love musicians like Bob Dylan and Deve

  Hofstede model: Colombia vs 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. After search the value of these categories for both countries we got this: Colombia and New Zealand Colombia New Zealand 1.  POWER DISTANCE (PDI): This dimension indicates how much cultures tolerate inequalities. In this case Colombia's PDI is higher than New Zealand's. That means that Colombia’s culture accepts more inequity and power distance than New Zealand and we can confirm that when we compare the Gini index of both countries (Colombia 50.4% and New Zealand 32.5% in 2018) 2. INDIVIDUALISM: This

Lewis Model 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.