South African person can adapt to Colombian Multi-active culture, because these cultures share many behavior of multi-active people, as is showed in Figure 1.
These cultures are wildly diverse geographically and in their religions beliefs and values, which can be categorized as a group or behaviourally, they follow the same pattern with the following traits and commonalities: emotion, talkativeness, rhetoric, drama, eloquence, persuasion, expressive body language, importance of religion or creed, primacy of family bonds, low trust societies, unpunctuality, variable work ethic, volatility, inadequate planning, capacity for compassion, collectivism, relationship-orientation, situational truth, dislike of officialdom, tactility, sociability, nepotism, excitability, changeability, sense of history, unease with strict discipline.
On the other hand, South African people have characteristics of Linear-active people and they can have problems to understand many things, because they are task-oriented, highly-organized planners, who complete action chains by doing one thing at time, preferably in accordance with a linear agenda.
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