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Impact of culture in financial literacy and behaviours
Dr Pushpa Wood ONZM Director Westpac Massey Fin-Ed Centre 11 December 2017, Brazil
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Relationship betweenCulture and
Money
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Introduction
516 responses (27.98% male, 72.02% female)
Majority of respondents from NZ but also included people from India and UK
Participation entirely voluntary and people were encouraged to participate through various networks
Main objective was to understand the extent to which culture influences people’s attitude to money
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Demograhpics
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Gender
28%
72%
Male Female
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Ethnicity
Māori
Pacific
Asian [CATEGORY NAME]
Other
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Q4 Does culture affect your attitude to wealth?
Yes
No
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Money & Wealth – Are they same?
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Definition of Money- in participants’ words
“Money is a currency for trading. Money does not equal to having wealth, such as in the case when money earned barely covers basic living expenses”.
“The source of greed and misery across the planet”.
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Definition of Wealth-in participants’ words
“Wealth is the wellbeing – links finances to physical, spiritual, mental & emotional wellbeing”.
“Wealth is what you build along the way while in your active years of working, which will generate money as and when you will need when you are retired”.
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Definition of Wealth-in participants’ words
“Wealth can be measured using non-monetary units and are often heavily influenced by not only one’s own culture but also the societal standards of the day”.
“Wealth is a wider and more meaningful concept, and incorporates both financial resources, as well as other quality dimensions of lifestyle”.
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Influence of culture on attitude to money & wealth?
“I grew up poor and I kind of don’t expect to get rich easily (my culture = lower middle class)”.
“My culture looks at wealth not in terms of money but rather relationships – being able to give, thinking of others before oneself and living in harmony with others.”
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Influence of culture on attitude to money & wealth?
“Pasifika culture places a lot of value on community, and while having money or wealth is important to the way we live here in NZ – a common story told by parents or grandparents to their children is that back in the islands, although they weren’t rich or had much money, they were happy and they got by”.
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Influence of culture on attitude to money & wealth?
“I think I was brought up to believe that wealth was my birth right. Even though life has proved otherwise, I still feel that vast sums of money will somehow find their way to me.”
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डा. पुषपााभारद्ाा-्ुड
Dr Pushpa Wood ONZM
Director
Westpac Massey Fin-Ed Centre
Massey University
Wellington
Phone: +64 4 979 3560
Mobile: +64 21755 813
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://fin-ed.massey.ac.nz