Cultural Portraits is divided into four parts:


I. Cultural Portraits
II. Educational Profiles
III. Glossary
IV. Appendx


Each Portrait has information on 19 categories:
Flag, Map, Official Name Of The Country, Location, Capital, Population, Political System, Race/Ethnicity; Language(S) Spoken; Religion(S); Challenges; Family; Gender Roles; Proxemics; Caveats; Dates; Numbers; Time; Name Structure; Diet; Body Language; Punctuality; Cultural Patterns.


Each country’s Educational Profile gives a visual over-view of the sequence of levels of learning, certificates/degrees earned, and grades given in:


Primary/Secondary Education (w/suggested U.S. grading scale equivalents) and Post-Secondary Education. A convenient Transcript Vocabulary will help understand most course entries in foreign Secondary School records.


The Glossary reflects words or terms used in the text which may be unknown or not used every day and some brief explanation is in order. One will know when to look up such a word (in alphabetic order) if it appears in the text in Italic Script.


The Appendix section at the end of the book contains information on a number of topics of possible interest, tangentially-related to culture, such as:


Abbreviations; A Synoptic Glance At World Cultures; Alphabets Of The World; World Literacy; Ranking The World’s Universities; Shanghai Ranking; Poverty And Education; Distribution Of Family Income; Diets Around The World; Gender Gap Map; The Numbers 1 – 100; Numeric Words And Symbols; Good Luck And Bad Luck Numbers; Understanding Arabic Names; Time Zone Map Of The World; Weights And Measures; References.

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(Please, click on each title below for a link to its content):

CULTURAL PORTRAITS:
A Synoptic Guide, 2nd Edition
Byron P. Palls, PhD

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FUTURE PUBLICATIONS
B&B Educational Consultants, Inc. will soon publish a book with the educational profiles of 101 countries; it will be geared to the needs of school administrators and counselors, for grade placement and evaluation of foreign transcripts. The book’s title is:


101
PROFILES IN EDUCATION:
Understanding Foreign Transcripts


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