Burundi Culture
ABSTRACT
The purpose of this report is to examine carefully and thoroughly about the culture of Burundi which includes the determinants of the culture, analysis of the culture by using Hofstede, Trompenaars and Edward T. Hall frameworks, the project GLOBE and lastly the conclusion which can be done to improve the culture system in Burundi.
Based on the research that has been done, Burundi’s culture bring a huge impact to the people’s mindsets and their ethics. Deep historical and traditional culture from the ethnics show that Burundi Culture is unique and more detailed research needed. This is the objectives of this assessment to know a deeper and detailed culture of Burundi.
INTRODUCTION
Background
Burundi is located in the Central African Region that borders with Rwanda, Tanzania and Congo. Burundi is a little nation surrounded by mountains and lakeside with the capital city called Bujumbura (Embassy of the Republic of Burundi, 2010). With the population of 6,370,609 people, Burundi is considered one of the poorest nations in the world. But on the other hand, Burundi has many natural resources such as alluvial gold, nickel, phosphates, rare earth, vanadium, and peat. Burundi also has two major agricultural resources and they are coffee and tea.
Burundi had been independent since 1962. The original inhabitants of Burundi are thought to the Twa people but now there is only 1% of the population left and they are remain isolated. Now Burundi was populated with Hutus and Tutsis as the two main ethnic groups. The Hutu group is their majority with 85% of the population and is usually short and square, whereas the Tutsi group is the minority and usually tall and thin with 14% of the population (Embassy of the Republic of Burundi, 2010). But despite that percentage, the Tutsi group has always been the dominant compared to the Hutu.
Standford (2007) stated that up until now Burundi already has 3 democratically elected presidents but two of them have already
The purpose of this report is to examine carefully and thoroughly about the culture of Burundi which includes the determinants of the culture, analysis of the culture by using Hofstede, Trompenaars and Edward T. Hall frameworks, the project GLOBE and lastly the conclusion which can be done to improve the culture system in Burundi.
Based on the research that has been done, Burundi’s culture bring a huge impact to the people’s mindsets and their ethics. Deep historical and traditional culture from the ethnics show that Burundi Culture is unique and more detailed research needed. This is the objectives of this assessment to know a deeper and detailed culture of Burundi.
INTRODUCTION
Background
Burundi is located in the Central African Region that borders with Rwanda, Tanzania and Congo. Burundi is a little nation surrounded by mountains and lakeside with the capital city called Bujumbura (Embassy of the Republic of Burundi, 2010). With the population of 6,370,609 people, Burundi is considered one of the poorest nations in the world. But on the other hand, Burundi has many natural resources such as alluvial gold, nickel, phosphates, rare earth, vanadium, and peat. Burundi also has two major agricultural resources and they are coffee and tea.
Burundi had been independent since 1962. The original inhabitants of Burundi are thought to the Twa people but now there is only 1% of the population left and they are remain isolated. Now Burundi was populated with Hutus and Tutsis as the two main ethnic groups. The Hutu group is their majority with 85% of the population and is usually short and square, whereas the Tutsi group is the minority and usually tall and thin with 14% of the population (Embassy of the Republic of Burundi, 2010). But despite that percentage, the Tutsi group has always been the dominant compared to the Hutu.
Standford (2007) stated that up until now Burundi already has 3 democratically elected presidents but two of them have already