A Beginner's Guide to the Deep Culture Experience: Beneath the Surface

Joseph Shaules

ISBN 10: 0984247106 / ISBN 13: 9780984247103

Published by Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2010

About this Item

2010. Paperback. When you travel or do business overseas, you can limit yourself to the airport experience or choose to take on the culture beneath the surface. This title examines our cultural encounters when we leave home, presenting cultural learning as a personal and intellectual challenge. Num Pages: 160 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFCA; VSP; WT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 280. Beneath the Surface. 160 pages, Illustrations. When you travel or do business overseas, you can limit yourself to the airport experience or choose to take on the culture beneath the surface. This title examines our cultural encounters when we leave home, presenting cultural learning as a personal and intellectual challenge. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: JFCA; VSP; WT. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight: 274. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Beginner's Guide to the Deep Culture Experience: Beneath the Surface
• Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0984247106
• ISBN 13: 9780984247103
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Experience culture beneath the surface

When we leave and travel abroad, for pleasure or for business, we make a choice: to have a superficial "airport experience" at our destination, or to appreciate the hidden culture beneath the surface. A Beginner's Guide to the Deep Culture Experience proposes a deep culture journey, encouraging travelers to pursue a meaningful cross-cultural experience.

Sharing anthropologist Edward Hall's conviction that becoming aware of our unconscious cultural programming is a transcendental challenge facing us all, author Joseph Shaules shows how the "deep culture experience" can teach us about ourselves. This practical book is an accessible introduction to intercultural communication without buzz words, theory or abstraction. If you travel internationally for work or simply enjoy the diverse cultures of the world, read this inspirational book before your next trip.

About the Author

Joseph Shaules, PhD, has worked in intercultural education in Japan, Mexico, and Europe for more than twenty-five years. He is the director of the Japan Intercultural Institute (JII) and teaches at the Rikkyo College of Business and the Keio University International Center. Shaules is a co-presenter on the NHK Television program "Nyuusu de Eikaiwa." He is also the Japan specialist for a consulting and training company based in Germany. He is the author of several books including A Beginner's Guide to the Deep Culture Experience. He lives in Tokyo.