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Morocco - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture (Simple Guides)

Morocco - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture (Simple Guides)

Current price: $9.95
Publication Date: November 1st, 2006
Publisher:
Kuperard
ISBN:
9781857333374
Pages:
168
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Description

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

About the Author

Jillian York is an American teacher and writer who lives and works in Morocco. A graduate of Binghamton University with a B.A. in Sociology, specializing in North African and Middle Eastern Studies, she studied Arabic at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco, as part of her degree course. She currently teaches English as a foreign language at the American Language Center of Meknès.

Praise for Morocco - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture (Simple Guides)

"Culture Smart has come to the rescue of hapless travellers." —Sunday Times Travel