Books In Print
MULTICULTURAL MANNERS
“Let’s see if we’ve got it all straight: Don’t
hug a Vietnamese when greeting him, but peck a Portuguese on both cheeks.
Don’t ever wear black to a Chinese wedding (the color suggests
death), and use discretion in handing out yellow flowers (to an Armenian
they mean you miss her; to an Iranian, they mean you hate her). Don’t
clean your plate in a Cambodian’s dining room unless you really
want more food, and fill the plate of your Salvadoran guest, who expects
that of a good host.
A complicated place, this America. It is filled with people from so many different countries that it is ever harder to get through the day without a gaffe that offends one ethnic group or another. The book offers chapter after chapter of important dos and don’ts.”
from the New York Times
from Newsday
from Austin American-Statesman
from San Francisco Bay Guardian