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.

How to View Samples of the Content.
(Please, click on each title below for a link to its content):

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

B&B Educational Consultants, Inc
is the “Sole Source Provider”
of Cultural Portraits.

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Those who have purchased a copy of the 1st edition of Cultural Portraits may purchase this Supplement which presents all the information that has been added to the 2nd edition. Specifically,


• it presents complete information, including related glossary, on eight additional countries: Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burundi, Congo-DR, Kenya, Myanmar, Panama, and [The] Sudan);
• it gives a schematic representation of the K-12 education sequence as well as grade equivalent suggestions of all eighty countries now studied in the 2nd edition; and
• it includes a basic transcript vocabulary--into English--of: French, German, Haitian Creole, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Vietnamese.


Note: The schematic representation and the transcript vocabulary alone are worth its nominal cost.


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