Book Overview
Whether you travel for business, pleasure, or a combination of the two, the ever-popular Culture Shock series belongs in your backpack or briefcase. Get the nuts-and-bolts information you need to survive and thrive wherever you go. Culture Shock country guides are easy-to-read, accurate, and entertaining crash courses in local customs and etiquette. Culture Shock practical guides offer the inside information you need whether you're a student, a parent, a globetrotter, or a working traveler. Culture Shock at your Door guides equip you for daily life in some of the world's most cosmopolitan cities. And Culture Shock Success Secrets guides offer relevant, practical information with the real-life insights and cultural know-how that can make the difference between business success and failure.Each Culture Shock title is written by someone who's lived and worked in the country, and each book is packed with practical, accurate, and enjoyable information to help you find your way and feel at home.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:155868624X
ISBN13:9781558686243
Release Date:August 2002
Publisher:Graphic Arts Books
Length:250 Pages
Weight:0.60 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.3" x 7.8"
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
we use it as a textbook!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
We teach a summer elective in Mexico for health professional students. Our 2 week in-country course focuses on learning the culture and language and health care systems of Mexico. This book is very useful because it gives a quick down and dirty synopsis of Mexican history (much longer and messier than U.S.history)that allows us, as teachers, to move into what we see as the aftermath, in the country today. It then moves onto the author's own experiences navigating the culture, with excellent tips, "to blend in" and understand what is going on around you. The details the author provides, such as going up to a stranger's house in the country, and asking "do you have any extra food today?" were true 20 years ago and are still true today. This provides the cultural context and informational detail we need, dealing with immigrants from these areas, in health care settings. It is not a guidebook. It is a hybrid...and very useful for those travelers who blaze their own paths, not the usual tourist tracks of Mexico.
Social and Cultural Mexico
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
I read this after reading the US State Travel Dept. Info Sheet which tends to be overly conservative and makes places sound like demilitarized zones. This guide put a little reality back into it. The author gives some cultural tips mainly for the gringo (US citizen) to help mostly in social situations. Especially useful, were the tips on how to recognize a good Mexican restaurant, how to address people in social situations, and other Mexicanisms such as various commonly used slang. The author also describes regional differences and urban/rural differences you may come across. I feel this is a good guide to get a feel for the people and the place especially for the casual visitor going to the non-tourist areas of Mexico so you don't act like such a gringo. Not really a book to keep as a long-term reference to Mexico, I'd try to borrow it before buying it. The author does give minor Mexican differences in pronouncing Spanish, but I think he assumes most readers have a basis for Spanish, or will have a phrase book for this.
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