BULGARIA ACCORDING TO THE LEWIS MODEL

 

Richard Lewis, a British linguist and world traveler, who speaks 10 languages, categorized the world's culture based on their behaviors and characteristics of their daily life and made three categories to avoid the dangers of stereotypes.

These categories are: 

Linear active: people who have a plan or schedule, they organize step by step their entire day and, do action chains, do one thing at the time. We can find Germans and Swiss in this group.

Multi-active: those are loquacious people who do many things at once, planning according to the relative thrill that each appointment brings with it. The silence is uncomfortable to them and they tend to interrupt frequent conversations.  Italians, Latin Americans and Arabs are in this group. 

Reactives: to them the respect and courtesy is priority, they listen quietly,  wait for a decent period of time to talk after the speaker to show respect and tolerate the silence very well. Chinese, Japanese and Finns are members of this group.

Based on the typical characteristics of each category, the Bulgarian culture could be in the second category due to the bulgarian culture have been influenced by Greek and Arabic culture, which are a clear example of this category. Furthermore, the Bulgarians just aren't  known to be courteous, educated and helpful with foreigners if not also to be  enthusiastic about gossip and rumor.

They tend to say something immediately after thinked about it and the introversion usually isn't for them. The Bulgarians are very outgoing even with the foreigners. They generally talk a lot but not in a loudy way because they respect the public silence. 

Additionally, the Bulgarians often change their responsibilities and don’t fulfill their appointments although they respect their job, the goals and achievement of the people. Finally, they trust in their feelings and if they suspect something is wrong, talk about it and try to solve it,  motivated by their enthusiasm. It could be affirmed that Bulgarian culture is into the second category, called by lewis as multi-active.

Lewis model diagram

According to the currently lewis model diagram, the Bulgarian culture seems to be related with a proportion between multi-active and reactive, being the multi-active proportion bigger than the reactive proportion. The reactive proportion could be due to respect and courtesy that they have with the foreigners to come there, for jobs, the goals and achievement of the people and for the public silence which is a way to show the respect for society rules.