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Title: The Art of Crossing Cultures by Craig Storti ISBN: 1-85788-296-2 Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Intercultural Pub. Date: 01 June, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: I usually hate this stuff...
Comment: I am a totally way-too-confident, know-it-all travel partner, but I admit to having lost it while living in Eastern Europe last year with my husband (not his fault). Simply put: this book kept me from going home early SEVERAL times because Storti lets you moan and groan a little and then points out how you might have had a part in creating the cultural "misunderstanding" that plagues you. Trust me...if this book could help someone as stubborn as I am...it might be responsible for world peace someday.
Rating: 5
Summary: Extraordinarily comforting and enlightening
Comment: This book remains a great source of wisdom and comfort, still needed after 15 years living abroad. The cultural differences aren't obvious any longer -- they can be deceptively subtle -- now that language and the daily facts of life are no longer an issue. However, I still trip over matters which I later realize to be cultural differences, and I assume others in similar situations do as well. And then I pull down Mr. Storti's book from the shelf and put it all into some sort of workable perspective.
Highly recommended to others, even those who have no intention of going abroad but would just like to have a better understanding of the cultural differences in this world -- something sorely needed these days.
By the way, Western women so quick to judge the 'sad' reality of women in Arab societies might do well to read this quotation from Harriet Martineau:
"[The women of the harem] pitied us European women heartily, that we had to go about travelling, and appearing in the streets without being properly taken care of -- that is, watched. They think us strangely neglected in being left so free, and boast of [how closely they are watched] as a token of the value in which they are held."
It should be a sobering reminder that it's a fools' game to judge, and certainly to pity, the reality of a person from a culture foreign to ours.
Thank you for your efforts and insights, Mr. Storti.
Rating: 4
Summary: The first thing you should buy when planning to move abroad
Comment: This is an excellent book on culture shock ~ it has helped me a great deal in my own experience as an expat. They cover each stage of culture shock and offer strategies to combat them.
The only reason I didn't give this book "5 stars" is that they get a little obscure and too philosophical at times.
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Title: Cross-Cultural Dialogues: 74 Brief Encounters With Cultural Difference by Craig Storti ISBN: 1877864285 Publisher: Intercultural Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1994 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Experiential Activities for Intercultural Learning by H. Ned Seelye ISBN: 1877864331 Publisher: Intercultural Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1996 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Survival Kit for Overseas Living: For Americans Planning to Live and Work Abroad by L. Robert Kohls ISBN: 185788292X Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Intercultural Pub. Date: 01 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Developing Intercultural Awareness: A Cross-Cultural Training Handbook by L. Robert Kohls, John M. Knight ISBN: 1877864137 Publisher: Intercultural Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1994 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: The Art of Coming Home by Craig Storti ISBN: 1857882970 Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Intercultural Pub. Date: 01 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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