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Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different countries, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. These concise guides tell you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a rapport with your hosts. This inside knowledge will enable you to steer clear of embarrassing gaffes and mistakes, feel confident in unfamiliar situations, and develop trust, friendships, and successful business relationships. Culture Smart! offers illuminating insights into the culture and society of a particular country. It will help you to turn your visit-whether on business or for pleasure-into a memorable and enriching experience. Contents include * customs, values, and traditions * historical, religious, and political background * life at home * leisure, social, and cultural life * eating and drinking * do's, don'ts, and taboos * business practices * communication, spoken and unspoken
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    168 pages
  2. Language
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  3. Publisher
    Kuperard
  4. Publication date
    September 1, 2006
  5. Dimensions
    4.25 x 0.5 x 6.75 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1857333179
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1857333176
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"Culture Smart has come to the rescue of hapless travellers." —Sunday Times Travel

About the Author

Graham Colin-Jones is British by birth, a linguist by training, and an international civil servant by profession. He is also the author of books on English grammar, business letter writing, and report writing. He has lived and worked overseas for twenty-two years and has experienced the realities of living and working in Asian cultures, including fifteen years in the Philippines. Yvonne Quahe Colin-Jones is Singaporean by birth, a sociologist by training, and a cross-cultural trainer and relocation professional. She is also an author of the book. We Remember: Cameos of Pioneer Life, a social history of Singapore using oral history as a medium of documentation. She has lived most of her life overseas.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Kuperard; Reprinted edition (September 1, 2006)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 168 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1857333179
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1857333176
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6.1 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.25 x 0.5 x 6.75 inches
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    Culture Smart! guides are written for people who want more than just the nuts and bolts of where to stay, what to see, and how to travel. Short, sharp and humorous, they deal with the richly rewarding human dimension of foreign travel by telling you about the beliefs and attitudes of the people you will meet and about situations you may encounter. They help you to understand what makes people tick, the values they live by, and the kind of behavior that will be reciprocated with goodwill and hospitality.

    Each guide includes concise chapters on the local customs, traditions and values of the country's inhabitants, and crucially, the key historical and cultural events that have shaped them. There are sections on social and business etiquette, tips on communication, both verbal and non-verbal, and advice on how to be a good guest.

    Our aim is to arm readers with a level of cultural fluency, so that whatever your reason for travelling, each situation may be approached with both confidence and sensitivity.

    Brief and thorough, our guides are designed so that they can be dipped into for quick reference as and when needed, or comfortably completed in a few sittings, affording you a comprehensive overview of what you're getting yourself into before you have even taken off!

    Written by long-term expats, journalists, professors and diplomats, Culture Smart! guides have been helping travelers be more than just tourists for over 20 years. With over 100 country guides to date, there are new titles and editions published every year.

    Marcel Proust once said, The true voyage of discovery lies not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. We hope that Culture Smart! will help you arrive at your destination with your eyes open.

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R. Cook
5.0 out of 5 stars Very helpful
Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2019
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Lots of good information regarding the history of the Philippines and proper etiquette.
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Marcia
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent service and shipping. Excellent educational book.
Reviewed in the United States on November 10, 2019
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Very educational.
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Robert R.
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent way to learn the culture
Reviewed in the United States on November 16, 2017
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Very good read and down to earth experiences
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dennis vilhauer
4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
Reviewed in the United States on August 30, 2018
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like this
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Johanne H. Calhoun
3.0 out of 5 stars and disappointed that it wasn't more update
Reviewed in the United States on November 9, 2015
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Didn't check date of publication, and disappointed that it wasn't more update. Did
cover many of my questions.
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Ron & Anna Winship
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2014
Must have, if you are going there to visit or live.
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R. Garcia
2.0 out of 5 stars Philippines- Culture Smart! Review
Reviewed in the United States on November 9, 2007
The Philippines- Culture Smart! book is intended for the American or Western business traveler only. It only provides guidance for social and business interactions with a short term visit in mind. I find it amusing that the book attempts to give advice for the expatriate business traveler, but there is no way that this book is sufficient, even for a brief visit. As very quick guide (1 - 2 hour reading) for the first time traveler, on a very short trip, this book may help you avoid any hideous cultural mishap, but as for insight into the Pilipino culture, it is definitely lacking. I would recommend the Culture Shock! Book or the Insight book instead for those seeking the next level.
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Barton J. Gilbert
4.0 out of 5 stars Good Book!
Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2015
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One of many guide books I read before I travel there. I found it helpful and interesting.
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John Bailey
5.0 out of 5 stars Philippines book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 7, 2016
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4.0 out of 5 stars Ok up to a point, some omissions.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 8, 2007
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Informative, but seemingly written from the point of view of a rich Westerner with many references such as, how many maids it would be appropriate to have, and what to expect of your driver, rather than someone who has come to admire and respect the natives. Omisions include references to some of the more exotic fruit e.g. Jack fruit, the possibility of being offered dog-meat at a barbeque, and good advice such as using the local dentists whilst on holiday. Trikes (in the form of motorcyle and sidecar) were not mentioned in the travel section, however in parts of Laguna and elsewhere they form the backbone of the transport system. Foreigners with spouses should be warned of the hazzards involved in purchasing land, especially agricultural lands, which if low-lying should be viewed in the wet season, not the dry.
I can't be entirely negative as in many places the authors do indeed capture the essential character of the Filipino, generally happy whatever the circumstances, and does explain the seeming noseyness of some of the older Filipinas I have met.
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