Authors: Norine Dresser
ISBN-13: 9780471684282, ISBN-10: 0471684287
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
Date Published: July 2005
Edition: Revised Edition
NORINE DRESSER is a professional consultant, speaker, folklorist, and educator. From 1993 to 2001, she wrote the award-winning "Multicultural Manners" column for the Los Angeles Times. Dresser has been interviewed on the Voice of America and numerous other radio and TV shows.
Your friend's mother-in-law is visiting from Korea. When greeting her, do you bow, shake hands, or kiss her on both cheeks?
The meeting with his international customers is going well for the corporate presidentuntil he gives the thumbs-up sign. Why?
You welcome your new neighbors with a bouquet of your prizewinning daffodils. Yet your beautiful yellow blossoms are met with looks of shock and horror. Why?
Discover the answers in this incisive, award-winning guide to etiquette, now thoroughly revised to reflect today's truly multicultural society. Both highly informative and entertaining, Multicultural Manners gives you the understanding you need, the perfect words to say, and the correct behavior to use in a wide range of cross-cultural situations.
The book features completely updated etiquette guidelines with special emphasis on postSeptember 11 culture clashes as well as a brand-new section that demystifies unfamiliar cultures in the news. Norine Dresser identifies key cross-cultural hot spots and suggests methods that foster respect for diversity. You'll discover:
1 | The new rules of communication | |
Body language | 11 | |
Child-rearing practices | 29 | |
Classroom behavior | 37 | |
Clothing and jewelry | 51 | |
Colors | 63 | |
Foodways | 71 | |
Gifts | 91 | |
Health practices | 101 | |
Holidays | 115 | |
Luck and supernatural forces | 123 | |
Male/female relations and gender issues | 141 | |
Miscellany | 151 | |
Prejudice | 167 | |
Time | 177 | |
Verbal expressions | 183 | |
2 | Clearing cultural confusions | |
Africans | 204 | |
Asians | 216 | |
South Asians | 220 | |
Southeast Asians | 226 | |
The Balkans | 233 | |
Independent members of the former USSR | 238 | |
Middle Easterners | 249 |