About the Author:
Craig Storti is founder and director of Communicating Across Cultures, a Washington, DC-based intercultural communication training and consulting firm. He is the author of several best-selling books, including The Art of Coming Home, The Art of Crossing Cultures, and Figuring Foreigners Out. Storti can be reached at craig@craigstorti.com or visit his website at www.craigstorti.com
From Library Journal:
This is a book about cultural differences and a lesson on linguistic relativity the concept that language reflects what is important in a culture. Storti (The Art of Crossing Cultures) explores how people from different cultures have different values, beliefs, and ideas of good and evil, morality and immorality. Through the socialization process, people internalize the code of conduct that others expect from them. Consequently, behavioral patterns vary from society to society. The founder of Communicating Across Cultures, a Washington-based training and consulting firm, Storti has collected 51 cross-cultural dialogs and analyses, paying special attention to both the explicit and the implicit differences between Americans and people from Britain, France, and Germany. Among these groups, Americans and the French have the least in common, while Americans tend to have relative affinity with Germans (e.g., Germany, like America, is more like a meritocracy, whereas France and Britain have an aristocratic history). Storti's brilliant insights into the cultural differences of these uniquely diverse nationalities both educate and entertain. Recommended for all academic libraries. Tim Delaney, Canisius Coll., Buffalo
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