Cultural Portraits, 2nd Edition has been written for those who work with persons
whose cultures differ from ours. It provides a framework for developing
cultural proficiency, thus bridging the culture gap in our changing environment
that often results in miscommunication and ineffective productivity.
Would you know that Chang Wu Jiang's last name is Chang, not Jiang?
Or that handing something to an Arab with your left hand is an insult?
Or
that, at birth, a Korean is one year old? Cultural Portraits, 2nd Edition
answers hundreds of questions and empowers you with valuable information
not only about cultural practices but with explanations about terms
we hear daily (i.e., "jihad," "Sunni").
If you are a school principal, a corporation executive, a registrar,
an institutional dietitian, a social worker, an immigration attorney,
a policeman, a guidance counselor, a director of personnel in a factory,
a professor or a classroom teacher, a foreign student adviser, a
business man, or just a tourist traveling around the globe, there
is something
in Cultural Portraits, 2nd Edition to help you avoid offending the
sensibilities of others and spare your embarrassment.
The more complete and accurate information we have, the better we
perform our jobs. In this book, you'll find brief, succinct information
(i.e.,
caveats, educational systems, recording foreign names, forms of
address, gender relations, diets, long and short dates, writing numbers,
body
language, punctuality, evaluating transcripts, national traits,
et al.) which will compose for you the cultural portrait of any one
of the 80
countries included in this study.
Cultural Portraits is a valuable
resource for resolving challenging issues and addressing cultural
questions to
help you do your job with renewed confidence; and even though population
figures may experience gradual changes from year to year, culture
requires many generations to change ever so slowly, so the information
contained
in this publication will continue to be valid for years to come.
An easy-to-use, easy-to-read, instant-access reference and source
of information on culture for classroom teachers, ESL teachers,
guidance counselors, administrators and others who want to improve
their CROSS-CULTURAL
COMMUNICATION & UNDERSTANDING.
Published by:
B&B Educational Consultants, Inc.
675 S. Gulfview Boulevard
Clearwater Beach, FL 33767-2645
Second Edition, January, 2010
First Edition published by AuthorHouse, November, 2008
Library of Congress Control Number: 2010920025
ISBN: 978-0-9843246-0-6
Consultants, Inc.