Lewis Model Of Culture Analysis

Different countries have different cultures. A world traveler who speaks ten languages, British linguist Richard Lewis, plotted the world’s cultures on a chart and was called The Lewis Model, and the model was divided into three categories. These three categories including Linear-active, Multi-active and Reactive. Although these three categories are very different from each one, they still have the same point that is they all have relation to time. Linear-active people likes to talk half of the time and do one thing at a time while Multi-active people prefer to talk most of the time and do several things at once. For the Reactive people, they always listen most of the time and react to partner’s action. These are the main points of The Lewis

Different people have their own idea about the culture and different understanding can cause multiple meanings of culture. People can summarize the whole culture in the world with different aspects, even the anthropologists can summaries many different definitions of culture. In 1952, the American anthropologists, Kroeber and Kluckhohn, critically reviewed concepts and definitions of culture, and compiled a list of 164 different definitions. Therefore, there is not only a definition about the culture, it depends on different aspects. None of this is exactly true or fault, and none of this can explain all the cultures in the world well. So, The Lewis Model can not explain every culture in the world either. Moreover, The Lewis Model only talk about the time in different countries and divided them into three categories, which is not comprehensive to explain every culture in the world. So, if a model wants to explain every culture in the world, it must be including many aspects of culture, not only one aspect of the culture. Although the Lewis Model has divided all countries in the world clearly, it is still too generalized that it can not persuade people to believe

It comes from life and everything can become a culture. From people’s language, habit to food, they are all cultures. Culture is complex and the content of it is not only the time. People’s behavior can also influence the culture and culture can affects people’s behavior. So, there are all kinds of cultures in the world. In the Lewis Model, he did not summarize these aspects and mention people’s belief and religion, which can be considered the big distinctions between countries in the world. Everyone has their own belief and every country has their own religion. So, a good model of culture should include all kinds of cultures. Lewis talks about the time that different countries obeyed and the plan that different countries followed in his model, but he did not give the detail about the time and the plan. It will be better if he can give more information about the culture. Most people in the world knew the Lewis Model, and most of people can learn something from it. However, it is not enough to make people known more about culture. So, the Lewis Model is still too