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Title: Culture Shock Morocco Edition (Culture Shock) by Orin Hargraves ISBN: 1-55868-625-8 Publisher: Graphic Arts Center Publishing Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Well, now I'm excited
Comment: After reading this book, now I'm all the more excited to visit Morocco. Hargraves paints such a vivid picture of the people, the culture. It is a complicated society, very foreign to my understanding and experience. And yet, as I read through it, so many times, page after page, I realize that the culture is so familiar, so like my experience. Most of all, I now understand that it will take a lifetime to learn to adapt to Moroccan culture. I am eager to see how the words lift off the pages and into reality.
Almost every page has nuggets and key points to learn and understand, and my copy is mostly yellow from highlighting. One aspect that I wish were different, though- Hargraves appears too often to accept the stratification in Moroccan culture, and the mistreatment of the lower classes, as par the course, and something Moroccans accept, and therefore something that we should accept, and something culturally neutral. There is so much good in Moroccan society, but, just as in any society, some that is not as good as well.
But that's only one small detraction in an otherwise great text. Particularly interesting is the quiz at the end of the book, where you test one's knowledge gained through reading. I've never seen this in any other culture or travel book, and it should really be more common! Hargraves doesn't just repeat information here either- rather, he asks the reader to intuit the answers not yet given, from the information that he's previously provided- and then of course, he provides all the possible correct answers.
I want to learn how to live and eat and talk and think, Moroccan. I want to see what it means to be a Moroccan who is so adept at adaptation to so many different cultural situations. I want to learn to engage in real Arab relationship, and to learn how to politely refuse a request, and how to be a good guest, and a good host. I want to learn how to serve the Moroccan peoples. If you're interested in this as well, then this is a book you need to get.
Rating: 5
Summary: A must for anyone living with a Moroccan or in Morocco
Comment: I have spent 3 summers in Morocco and 5 years with my husband who is Moroccan and this book clarified a lot aspects of Moroccan life for me. No matter how objective one may be about cultural differences, it helps to have a neutral party explain what is happening in a given interaction. I didn't even realize how much I suffered from culture shock until I read "Culture Shock!" Particually helpful were the author's comments on the difference in Western and Eastern concepts of personal space, public space and privacy.
Rating: 5
Summary: A MUST for anyone going to or interested in Morocco
Comment: In anticipation of accompanying my close Moroccon friend to his homeland on a business trip with another American, I read this book in one sitting and read it twice more before leaving for Morocco. It proved to be an invaluable tool to better understanding my Moroccan friend here in the states and it provided knowledge, information and tips that proved priceless during my recent stay in Morocco. I have no doubt that had I not read this book, I would have had a very different experience. This book enabled me to have the most incredible travel experience of my life despite the fact that I don't speak arabic or french. At the very least I had an understanding of this wonderfully rich culture steeped in tradition. I recommend this book to anyone interested in Morocco whether for travelling or simply interested in the country, their people and customs. While this book is ideal for someone relocating, I found it to be more useful than any of the other travel companions I purchased for my trip. Any future travel plans of mine will start with a purchase of "Culture Shock..." for that country.
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Title: Lonely Planet Moroccan Arabic Phrasebook (LONELY PLANET MOROCCAN ARABIC PHRASEBOOK) by Dan Bacon, Bichr Andjar ISBN: 0864425864 Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications Pub. Date: 01 February, 1999 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: Lonely Planet Morocco (LONELY PLANET MOROCCO) by Bradley Mayhew, Jan Dodd ISBN: 1740593618 Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications Pub. Date: 01 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.99 |
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Title: Eyewitness Travel Guides: Morocco (Eyewitness Travel Guides) ISBN: 0789489465 Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Publishing Pub. Date: 01 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Footprint Morocco Handbook : The Travel Guide by Justin McGuinness ISBN: 1900949873 Publisher: Footprint Pub. Date: October, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Morocco since 1830: A History by C. R. Pennell ISBN: 0814766773 Publisher: New York University Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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