Thailand | Naren - Keiver

While creating this blog, we could learn how different yet beautiful in its very own ways cultures can be. When we started our research about Thailand, we couldn’t help to be fascinated by the way the greetings are done in comparison to how they’re done in Colombia. As it is obvious, every country have backgrounds of every kind, and we find really amusing to be able to study the way it manifests and shows in society; I mean, as we are not really interested in oriental culture, we didn´t know much about this, but nowadays our vision of things have changed. Greetings are someting we live with, there’s nothing to us like a handshake or a hug with our closests ones! But as we have learn, at other places, these types of interactions are inaceptable unless it’s with a really close relative.  We really think this blog helped us out on the propper understanding of this whole different place, sharing our previous thoughts about the topic, we noticed that we didn’t know o didn’t care about s...

 Thailand and Colombia have different ways of Non-verbal communication. We can find a lot of differences but overall with have to understand that in Thai culture people keeps physic distance while in our culture physical touch is essential. Thai non-verbal communication is emphasized in showing respect and politeness. One example of the non-verbal communication of the Thai people is the traditional Thai greeting known as the "Wai" which consists in a slight bow with hands pressed together in a prayer like-position. This is different from the way we do it in Colombia, here hugs, kisses on the cheek, and handshakes are the most common ways to greet. Keeping the eye contact is also considered respectful in Thailand, the same as Colombia, where keeping the eye contact is essential for people to feel heard. Both countries use facial expressions and gestures to show emotions and intentions, but the interpretations of the signals can be very much different. Also, in Colombia the non...

                                                                   Hofstede Model: Colombia vs. Thailand 4 Problems that a Thai person could have studying in Barranquilla based on the Hofstede Model A Thai person that comes to study to Colombia might find diverse problems because of culture shock. Although the Hofstede Model indicates that Colombia and Thailand have some similarities, there are still a lot of things that can be a problem for a Thai person who studies in Barranquilla. One of the problems that they can experience is the power dynamics in Colombian education, it might be a challenge for them to relate appropriately with professors or any kind of "superiors" because some of then might expect a high degree of deference and respect. A second problem to take into account is  the variations or differences ...