Deep Culture: The Hidden Challenges of Global Living

✍ Scribed by Joseph Shaules

Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Year: 2007
Tongue: English
Leaves: 274
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book reviews the hidden cultural challenges of adapting to life abroad. Combining intercultural theory with the lived experiences of sojourners, it reviews key concepts, introduces a cultural learning model, explains hidden barriers to intercultural sensitivity, and brings clarity to debates about globalization and cultural difference.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part 1: The Intercultural Experience
1. Intercultural Contact in the Global Village
2. Objections to Culture
3. Understanding the Deep Structure of Culture
4. Deep Cultural Difference and Increased Prejudice
5. What is Successful Cultural Learning?
6. The Process of Intercultural Learning
Part 2: A Model of Cultural Learning
7. The Deep Culture Model
8. Resistance to Change
9. Acceptance of Difference
10. Adaptation and Cultural Identity
11. Resistance and Rapport – Why Not Everyone Reacts the Same
12. Beyond Adaptation
13. Implications for the ‘Global Village’
A Glossary of the Intercultural Experience
Background of the Sojourners
References

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