Essay On The Lewis Model

The article "The lewis model explains every culture in the world", which was written by Gus Lubin, shows a short introduction of Richard Lewis ' book When Culture Collide. Gus talked mainly about The Lewis Model in his article. "The Lewis Model plots countries in relation to three categories, which are Linear-actives, Multi-actives and Reactives, and it gives the standard of these three categories." And Gus thought "The Lewis Model could do good help when communicating and association". （Lubin, "The lewis model explains every culture in the world", 1）For me, I agree with Gus ' opinion. I think The Lewis Model does good help in people life and people should master this model when communicating and associating with foreigners. There are three

First, I think people could act more politely with these knowledge. For examples, I went to Italy last summer holiday. And under teachers teaching and my experience in Italy, I found Italian love speaking with hands which have spacial meaning in, in the most of the time. And if someone don 't know this before communicating may act rudely. I did. I lost my way in the road and I asked someone for help. Unfortunately, that person did not understand my expression, and he put his fingertip together to show he can not understand of what I was saying. But I thought he was asked for money so I left. But later in the class I began to know the actual meaning of this hand language and I found I was rude to the person who want to help me. However, if I knew some about this The Lewis Model, my acting would be better. Because in this model, "Italian belong to multi-active people who use body language unrestrained", Lewis writed.（Lubin, "The lewis model explains every culture in the world", 2）I would do a better preparation before my tour and acted more politely during my tour if I knew The Lewis Model. So, people would act more politely if have knowledge like this model. The Lewis Model I think is like a important guide to lead you do some important job before communicating and associating with people who has different culture background with you. So, I think The Lewis Model is important and necessary for people to