Book description
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. A Beginner's Guide to the Deep Culture Experience
examines our cultural encounters when we leave home, presenting
cultural learning as a personal and intellectual challenge--a journey
of discovery that just might change you.
A Beginner's Guide to the Deep Culture Experience is an
easy-to-read guide to "deep culture"--the unconscious
cultural programming that we often don't notice until we go abroad. It
shows those who travel, both for business and pleasure, how to go
beyond the "superficial internationalism" brought about by
globalization to better understand themselves and their world.
Indispensable to those seeking to dig beneath the surface to find out
why people in other countries behave as they do. Nobody does this sort
of thing as well as Joseph Shaules.--Robert Whiting, author of Tokyo
Underworld and You Gotta Have Wa. Joseph Shaules is the director of
the Japan Intercultural Institute and an associate professor at the
Rikkyo University Graduate School of Intercultural Communication in
Tokyo. He has more than 20 years of experience as an educator, author
and intercultural trainer in Japan, Mexico and Europe. He is the author
of several books and co-hosts a weekly television show in Japan called
English Through the News.
