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Title: Culture Shock! United Arab Emirates by Gina L. Crocetti ISBN: 1-55868-633-9 Publisher: Graphic Arts Center Publishing Co. Pub. Date: March, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.92 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A compulsory complement to Emirates plane ticket.
Comment: This book should be the compulsory complement to the plane ticket to Dubai and to United Arab Emirates. There are a lot of things to know and to discover having the first cultural contact with those places and that population.
Madam Crocetti has been able to concentrate an experience of living into few pages. Madam Crocetti gently introduce the occasional tourist and the becomer resident to the Emiratis culture and particularly to the Emiratis way of life.
This guide is not only useful to avoid blunders very easy to do !, as I can state personally, but to find the proper way to live also and above all.
Are you considering to spend an holiday at the Dubai beaches ?
Are You going to be assigned to Dubai or Jebel Ali branch office ?
First of all read this very nice, very sensitive "carnet" and then ... find your way to the people and to this country.
Dr. Ezio Lucenti
Rating: 5
Summary: Realistic
Comment: I lived in a larger city than Ms Crocetti did and felt initially that this book did not pertain to my experience. As time passed and I went through the cycles of adjustment described, I decided to re-read this book. Not only did I find the cycles of adjustment were as described, but also that the values of the Emirati culture were manifesting themselves in my life. The understanding I gained about them from this book helped me to be more patient, relaxed and respectful. I thought, too, that the book was negative because I had so much hope and expectation for my time working in the UAE. I see now that this author has really given us a realistic view of what to expect from living in the Emirates. I have read numerous Culture Shock! books and can confidently say of the writing- this is one of the best.
Rating: 2
Summary: Not My Experience
Comment: I read Culture Shock before traveling to Dubai and found almost everything described in the book either incorrect or outdated. Granted, I never traveled outside of urban areas and mostly dealt with business people in the Emirates but found everyone I met with to be genuine and warm.
In my opinion the UAE is a unique place in the world, and not only looks to the future on a grand scale but has the funding and vision to make it happen.
I agree that one should be sensitive to cultural differences, but not to the degree of that the author indicates.
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Title: Lonely Planet Dubai (Dubai, 2nd Ed) by Richard Plunkett, Lou Callan ISBN: 1740591305 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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Title: Spectrum Guide to the United Arab Emirates (Spectrum Guides) by Camerapix ISBN: 1566564263 Publisher: Interlink Pub Group Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Insight Guide Oman and the Uae (Insight City Guides) by Dorothy Stannard, Insight Guides ISBN: 0887292879 Publisher: Insight Guides Pub. Date: July, 1998 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Lonely Planet Oman & the United Arab Emirates (LONELY PLANET OMAN AND THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES) by Lou Callan, Gordon Robison ISBN: 1864501308 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: June, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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Title: Lonely Planet Bahrain, Kuwait & Qatar (Bahrain, Kuwait and Qat (The Gulf States) 1st Ed) by Gordon Robison, Paul Greenway ISBN: 1864501324 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: June, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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