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Come As You Aren't!
Feeling at Home with Multicultural Celebrations
(M. Evans, 2006)
Whether you are a new member of a multiracial/interfaith family, the father of a same-sex bride, or the mother of an adopted daughter from China, in her new book, "Come As You Aren't!" Norine Dresser offers suggestions for mixed families in avoiding social pitfalls at holidays and rituals for birth, coming of age, marriage, death, and other significant life events.
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Come As You Aren't!
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Multicultural Manners:
Essential Rules
of Etiquette for the 21st Century More Real-Life Dilemmas with
Special Emphasis on Post 9/11 Conflicts
(Revised
and Expanded Edition, Wiley, 2005)
Brand New Global Section
Culturally Deconstructs 70 Different Countries Making
Headlines and Impacting our Lives
Read more about Multicultural Manners
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Multicultural Manners: New Rules of Etiquette for a Changing Society
(Wiley, 1996)
Informative,
entertaining, humorous, “Multicultural
Manners” gives
readers a new understanding of our changing society. Included are
appropriate words to say in different cultural settings as well
as warnings about taboos for a wide range of situations. “Manners” received
the 1998 Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations, John Anson
Ford Award for improving intergroup harmony.
Inside “Multicultural
Manners” :
Q: Why
does the female Korean shopkeeper refuse
to put change into the
hands of her male customer?
A: It is disrespectful to touch
strangers, particularly those of
the opposite sex.
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Multicultural Celebrations:
Today’s Rules of Etiquette for
Life’s Special Occasions
(Three Rivers Press,
1999)
Multicultural Celebrations advises what to wear, how to act,
what gifts to give at a variety of ethnic and religious weddings,
funerals, coming of age, pregnancy, birth, and healing rituals.
Inside “Multicultural Celebrations”:
Q: If Chinese wedding guests
give the couple money
in a red envelope, is it acceptable
to give money
in a white
envelope if I can’t find a
red one?
A: No way!
White envelopes enclosing money are
only used at funerals.
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I Felt Like I Was from Another Planet: Writing
from Personal Experience
(Addison-Wesley, 1994)
This book features a teacher resource guide as well as
students’ stories
of cultural adjustment. Helps students with the process writing
as they explore cultural differences and their own
feelings of alienation or confusion.
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Inside “I Felt Like I
Was From Another Planet”:
When the new Cambodian student
starts school for the first time in
the U.S., her classmates pinch her.
Shocked and in pain, she bursts
into tears. Why?
It’s St. Patrick’s
Day, an unknown
holiday in Cambodia, and she
isn’t wearing green. Pinching is a
reminder that you’re supposed to
observe the wearin’ of the green
on March 17th.
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Our Own Stories: Readings
for
Cross-cultural Communication -
Second
Edition (Longman/Addison-Wesley, 1995)
For Intermediate English as
a Second Language classes, this book presents cultural issues
through the eyes of students. It is written from the heart- student
essays—sad, funny,
and inspiring—are
the centerpiece of each unit.
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Inside “Our
Own Stories”:
Indian-born Gopal invites his
high school classmate, Rafael,
to visit his home. En route,
Rafael purchases two hamburgers
and gives one to Gopal. Gopal’s
family looks at Rafael in horror.
Why?
Gopal’s family is Hindu
and they don’t eat beef.
They are
stunned that Rafael would bring
a taboo food into their home. |
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Our Own Journeys
(Longman/Pearson, 2003)
For Beginning English as a Second Language classes. Compelling
true stories about colliding cultures. Turns cultural differences
into classroom assets.
Inside “Our Own
Journeys”:
An American doctor is startled when
he discovers ten red circles on his patient’s back.
Why?
He’s never heard of the Russian
folk treatment for chest colds in which hot glass cups called banki
are placed on the back, leaving red circles on the skin when removed.
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