Lewis Model -The culture of Mexico

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This is the Lewis model, that shows the different countries and their classification in multi active, linear active and reactive.

As we can see Mexico and Colombia are multi active, this means that their people are impulsive, they believes that relationships are very important, the most of the times do not follow agendas, also they are able to do many things at the same time. According to the Lewis model is someone from Mexico comes to Colombia probable it won't feel many differences, because their culture are too similar.

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