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Original Title: When Cultures Collide: Leading Across Cultures
ISBN: 1423774582 (ISBN13: 9781423774587)
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When Cultures Collide: Leading Across Cultures ebook | Pages: 624 pages
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Ok guys so I am from Lithuania where racism, homophobia and misogyny is given from one person to another like a mental STD, so my judgement might be a bit off. But even I, with all the tolerance to not properly developed regarding human rights, couldn't stop wondering - HOW THIS BOOK IS VALUED SO HIGHLY FOR SO MANY YEARS?

On one hand I like any kind of classification, and Lewis gives one that is kinda making sense. On the other hand though, he does not back up any claims, so they just throw various stereotypes, random thoughts and cute little travel memories around. The book was alright until he started listing every country he has visited in his life, and describing entire cultures in a couple of paragraphs in a scientifically sound categories of "How to empathize with X".

I find it worth mentioning that a book about cultural diversity that has a model of cultural types lists the following categories on one scale: Russia, Italy, Denmark, Belgium, AFRICANS, ARABS, HONG KONG. I don't know what scale we are looking at exactly but I believe you cannot compare a culture of the continent of Africa with a culture of Hong Kong. The part about Sub-Saharan Africa is smaller than the part about the Baltic states (Lewis described LITHUANIA in depth), and Sub-Saharan African part of the book didn't even have countries listed, like it was with every other region. I mean, it's like all Sub-Saharan Africa is a huge blob where everyone talks to the spirits of ancestors (which was emphasized in the section).

I wonder if Lewis had an editor, and if yes, then why did he fire him.

Please don't take my word for it: I will just quote some parts of the book:
1. Asians, Africans and women have different cognitive styles. --> How is this a sentence?
2. All good Asians are self-effacing, but the Chinese take it to ridiculous. As we all know, Asians do not like to lose face. --> I, on the other hand, am always happy to be humiliated publicly.
3. The invaders rapidly acquired the ability to adapt themselves to the “strange” and “exotic” environment of the Indians. They slept in hammocks, paddled canoes, smoked tobacco, ate maize and potatoes and married local women. --> Got to agree, marrying someone indeed equals eating a potato.
4. Scandinavians, Japanese and some other reticent peoples often convey their thoughts and values through quiet, reliable actions. Mexicans prefer words. --> I, as a woman, prefer humming like a bee in order to communicate my need to marry or eat a potato.
5. The Portuguese mixed easily with other races (as they do today). --> Portugese is not a race.
6. Chileans are warm-hearted Latins who wish nothing more than to mingle with Europeans (even Anglo-Saxons) and to trade energetically with them. --> All Chilleans want to be good bois, yes? Who's a good boi?
7. (..) but in terms of deeply rooted culture, all Koreans are the same. --> Do I need to comment on this?

I highly recommend this book to a white American businessman that is suspicious of Mexicans and votes for Trump.

The book is worse than most other racist crap because it pretends to be culturally appropriate.

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Title:When Cultures Collide: Leading Across Cultures
Author:Richard D. Lewis
Book Format:ebook
Book Edition:3rd Edition
Pages:Pages: 624 pages
Published:November 26th 2010 by Nicholas Brealey Publishing (first published 1996)
Categories:Business. Nonfiction. Cultural. Leadership. Psychology. Travel. Language. Communication

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I dont understand how this monstrosity of a racist, classist, Eurocentric, misogynistic book is so highly regarded, as a leader in intercultural competences. Perhaps, I am being unfair, this book does make the (unintentional) point of what happens when someone coming from a culture that for centuries systemically oppressed, dominated, profited of, demonized, committed genocide and countless other inhumane acts on a large portion of the world writes a book about those peoples' cultures and how to

There are about a billion books that purport to teach you to relate to different cultures. Most of these books approach it from a single vector (Chinese culture for Americans; Indian culture for Brits). Those are often detailed approaches, full of little dos and don'ts that are most relevant. On the other hand, they often read as lists of rules that basically have to be memorized.When Cultures Collide takes a more systematic approach. Lewis divides world cultures into three main groups:

Excellent book on intercultural communication, one of my favorite subjects on earth. I ve been lucky to hear Dr Lewis lecture a couple of times too, and for me he is THE guru of intercultural communication. Loved this book!

Ok guys so I am from Lithuania where racism, homophobia and misogyny is given from one person to another like a mental STD, so my judgement might be a bit off. But even I, with all the tolerance to not properly developed regarding human rights, couldn't stop wondering - HOW THIS BOOK IS VALUED SO HIGHLY FOR SO MANY YEARS?On one hand I like any kind of classification, and Lewis gives one that is kinda making sense. On the other hand though, he does not back up any claims, so they just throw

Great book about cultures across different countries. A handbook to read before business meetings in abroad to having guests from other countries.

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I have used this for school but if you are interested in other countries and cultures and how to approach them it's a really useful book. The dictionary in the back let's you find the country you may travel to and describe it in few pages how they use their language, manners, body language etc.