Preface
CHAPTER ONE CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION
Reading Skill:Identifying Main Ideas and Supporting Details
Brief Quotes
Prereading Activities
GARY ALTHEN,American Values and Assumptions
A foreign student adviser analyzes major cultural patterns in the United States.
Reading Journal
Meaning and Technique
Main Ideas
Well-Written Paragraphs
Supporting Details
Drawing Inferences
Vocabulary:Negative Prefixes
Vocabulary:In Context
Discussion and Debate
Preconceptions and Stereotypes
Writing Activities
Objective Description vs.Value Judgment
Prereading Activities
LISA DAVIS,Where Do We Stand?
A journalist describes cross-cultural differences in the use of personal space.
Reading Journal
Meaning and Technique
Drawing Inferences
Vocabulary:Idioms
Vocabulary:In Context
Discussion and Debate
Writing Activities
Compare-and-Contrast Signals
Prereading Activities
PREMCHAND,a Coward
In this short story,an Indian writer focuses on the lives of two university students from different castes who fall in love.
Reading Journal
Vocabulary:Figures of Speech
Additional Readings
DEBORAH TANNEN,Sex,Sighs,and Conversation:Why Men and Women Can't Communicate
A linguistics professor explores differences in the ways females and males use language.
JOHN GODFREY SAXE,The Blind Men and the Elephant:A Hindu Fable
Six blind men argue about what an elephant most resembles.
The Adjustment Process in a New Culture
A graph illustrates the five common stages of cultural adjustment.
Making Connections
CHAPTER TWO STEREOTYPING AND DISCRIMINATION
CHAPTER THREE Gender roles
CHAPTER FOUR Work
CHAPTER FIVE Education
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Appendix D
Appendix E
Appendix F
Appendix G
Glossary
Index
