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Title: Multicultural Manners : New Rules of Etiquette for a Changing Society by Norine Dresser ISBN: 0-471-11819-2 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 19 January, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (4 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Interesting and succint
Comment: Coming from a college student with a high number of international friends, I found this book interesting and succint. The book helped to explain many of the reasons for some of my friend's behaviors because of cultural traditions. Overall, I give this book a nod of approval.
Rating: 5
Summary: Useful, readable, accurate, respectful
Comment: Norine Dresser's work is an invaluable guide to helping people navigate the dangerous shoals of intercultural intersections. From the varying significance of yellow flowers through the opposing attitudes toward salt to the values of folk remedies, Dresser gives excellent and respectful advice.
Organized by clear and useful categories, the book offers interesting anecdotes to illustrate the cultural clashes sparked by apparently small things like the color of the flowers in a thank-you gift. Where I have the experience to know, I find her information accurate. She is invariably respectful of all cultures, and offers explanations of cultural beliefs which may on the surface seem irrational to our Western perceptions.
The book is written in language and style which is available to readers as young as junior high school, but there is no condescension either to the reader or the described cultures.
This is fine and valuable book, helpful to international businesspeople, school teachers, travelers, and neighbors. I recommend it to anyone who comes in contact with people from other countries, either here or abroad.
Rating: 5
Summary: Know why the elevator stops on every floor?
Comment: For decades I thought it was because some prankster had been on just before me. All that wasted time while no one got on or off had begun to bother me. Now that I know the reason behind it, I smile. So glad to have this and other cultural differences explained. Thank you Norrine Dresser. This one's on my gift list. (Bonus (not in book): Did you know that if you ask someone who is deaf to have lunch and they give a big frown as they nod yes. that it means YES VERY MUCH! The deaf tendency to frown to emphasize has led to a lot of misunderstandings.
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Title: Kiss, Bow, or Shake Hands: How to Do Business in Sixty Countries by Terri Morrison, Wayne A. Conaway, George A. Borden ISBN: 1558504443 Publisher: Adams Media Corporation Pub. Date: April, 1995 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Gestures : The Do's and Taboos of Body Language Around the World by Roger E. Axtell ISBN: 0471183423 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 10 October, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Do's and Taboos Around The World by Roger E. Axtell ISBN: 0471595284 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: June, 1993 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Cross-Cultural Dialogues: 74 Brief Encounters With Cultural Difference by Craig Storti ISBN: 1877864285 Publisher: Intercultural Press Pub. Date: April, 1994 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Do's and Taboos of Hosting International Visitors by Roger E. Axtell ISBN: 0471515701 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: March, 1990 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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