Today I have been doing a tittle research about the country and I found a intersting article that exposes the origin and history of one of the most feared subculture in Norway.  

The real noruegan black metal was a subculture that stared in  Norway in the late 80’s, this group of was conformed by young people who had a well off social position. All the followers of the bands stared to imitated the believes that their leaders had in relation to the church and christianity.  

This subculture used to believe that the imposiition of christianity help to distroy the religion that revered thor, odin and other viking gods.  

The basement of one of the leaders was the pleace where their followers made sacriifices of death animals, orgies, parties and rituals. This gorup of people was baptized by the press as the cirlcle and were designated as a satanists group.  

Other activities that this group used to have were threats of death to the pastors, they cought fire 30 churches and stole the jewerly.  

This subculture ended by the arrest of one of the last members that originated this movement. 

It has been easy for me to adapt to this country, but what if a student from Norway wants to go to an exchange to Colombia ?

While I was learning about behavior in differents societies I found «the lewis model» which explains that humans can be divided into 3 categories Linear-active, Multi-active and Reactive. During my life as a psychology I had worked in different countries, most of them in latin america, and as a latin man I have learned how my culture works. Colombia is a country that is included in the category of multi-active, we can do many things at once, we don’t do our activities based on a schedule, on the other hand, Norway is a liner-active country they do implement the schedule, they are more organize and have a limited body language showing how these countries have opposite behaviors.

Even though the first few days the adaptation can be difficult because the way of act of these countries are a little bit different I think the student can adapt quickly to way of life Barranquilla because the citizens try their best to also adapt to other people’s needs. Barranquilla and Norway are in opposites sides of the model so that can affect the student for a while and it can be hard and may affect the order and the routing to the Norway student but at the same time he can find a lot of Liner-active people in the city so he can enjoy the experience in his own way. Also it needs to be emphasized that the lewys model is quite strict, not every single person in Barranquilla have a multi-active behavior and the same can happen with the people of Norway.

In the short time that I’ve been in Norway and based on the country comparison realized by hofstede insights, I’ve noticed that comparing to Colombia we have a lot of differences.  

In Colombia we see the inequality as a fact of life, we accept that the opportunities are not the same to everyone. On the other hand, Norway a is country where everyone expects to have a voice and the same opportunities.  

But I found something interesting, even though Norway provide the opportunity of equality to everyone the way they work is really individualistic, they do the activities have to by themselves.

 While in Colombia it is expected that everyone should contribute for the purpose of a collective benefit and for the fellowship. 

Colombia is a Masculine society we are competitive and we’re status oriented, yet we prefer to be collectivistic. This means that the competition is to members of other groups. While Norway is the second most feminine  country. This means that they take care of the environment, so try to be better than others is neither socially nor materially rewarded. 

Colombia has a high score on Uncertainty Avoidance that means that we are try to avoid ambiguity Norway scores 50 and this does not indicate a preference on this dimension. 

A similar characteristic is our way of thinking, we are are normative, respect for traditions, also we like to achieve quick results. 

Colombia is  an Indulgent country. willingness to realise their impulses and desires with regard to enjoying life and having fun. Norway has an intermediate, therefore inconclusive, score of 55 in this category. 

I arrived to Norway tree days ago and since then i’ve noticed that most of the rende roles are the same for mens and womens.

I thougth that the roles would be more strict and marked but as in Colombia even though boys and girls have some genders role asigneds sice they are childrens most of the adults live their life in way they want.

During this time I have noticed that Norrway is one of the most gender equal cortry compared to other countries that I have been before. Girls do mostly of the things that «a boy should do» and they are happy doing it so it’s really interesting and something to admire.

As I told you in my last post my trip to Norway is getting close, that means my friends an I will be landing in Norway in three weeks.

The last few days I have been searching for some information about the culture, watching series, movies and shows, now I think I have a stereotype on mind.

As you can see the stereotype that I have about the norwegians is: White skin color, blond straight hair (and in some cases curly), their eyes have a haizel color, I think most of them really tall. The males look a little bit muscular while the girls have a proportionate body.

I think they are respectful people, also really introverted but In a nice way like they care about their friends, family and neighbours.

I can’t wait to be in there.