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 | | Readings in Intercultural Communication: Experiences and Contexts by Judith Martin, Thomas Nakayama, Lisa Flores ISBN-10: 9780767427166 ISBN-10: 0-7674-2716-5 ISBN-13: 9780767427166 ISBN-13: 978-0-7674-2716-6 Paperback 2001-10-09 McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description The goal of this revised edition is to explore multiple perspectives in intercultural communication that are grounded in the everyday communication experiences of study. The essays in this edition range from the classic writings of E. T. Hall, Gerry Philipsen and Geert Hofstede to more recent scholarship influenced by critical theory and cultural studies. | ||
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Not my favorite book: I am reading this book for my university course "Intercultural Communication" and have found that the essays within the book are at times discriminatory in their own sense. One of the essay authors writes about crossing borders in his Irish heritage and then into his self-affirmed homosexuality. Later in his essay, he inserts a blatant reference to the priesthood being a hiding place for homosexual men. This is totally false and truly offensive. If any essay were to even mention such a reference about homosexuals, different races, other religions, this would not be allowed into the "politically correct" book. Sure, the book offers different essays from different experiences - but again, it falls back to the analysis of the experiences that is always always the same. Overall, I don't like this book because, to me, it is not truly intercultural - it is liberal cultural. This assessment is coming from a tri-liguist study abroad student with a lot of exposure to many different cultures. I can tell a narrow-minded book when I see one. The essays are all written from a liberal assessment and no other types of assessment of the experiences in the essays. Therefore, I find the book hypocritical and lacking the many other shades of color that other philosophies could have offered and enriched. | ||
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