On Hall model

 

The hall models

For my particular country which is Italy I feel like there is a lot of speculation and sometimes prejudice for weather Italian are really as the rest of the world describes them. Using the hall model, we as a group, were able to conclude that Italians in general are a high context culture as their physical context of the messages often carries a great deal of importance. Some aspect reported on the model such as space ad time are very accurate as they describe perfectly how our different cultures behave and how our day-to-day approaches and manners with other people are. In Italy for example we tend to be very friendly and chill whether in other country the phase of “breaking the ice” into the process of building friendship can take more time as other cultures might feel uncomfortable in opening up straight away. Regarding the action chains, although through the technologies advantages everything is getting a little faster in terms of time and efficiency, Italy is still very ancient and antiquated. An example could be the university process or enrolment which takes very long as it still requires an examination which is unusual to find in other country. The Netherlands which is much more modernized regarding this aspect does not require an examination which allows the process of enrollment and therefore the chain of action to be more shorter and efficient.