- ISBN13: 9781857333053
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different countries, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. These concise guides tell you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a rapport with your hosts. This inside knowledge will enable you to steer clear of embarrassing gaffes and mistakes, feel confident in unfamiliar situations, and develop tru… More >>
India – Culture Smart!: the essential guide to customs & culture
the book is great but the service from this source was extremely slow almost two weeks to get a book.
Rating: 4 / 5
I purchased this book for my brother and sister-in-law who were preparing for an extended stay in India. They were very appreciative when I gave it to them, and they proceeded to read and study before their trip. Both agreed, when they came back, that this cultural guide is one of the best because of its clear and concise style and organization. They appreciated the straight-forward and complete details which proved to make their stay in India more comfortable and less stressful. The book proved to be an essential reference during their trip.
Rating: 5 / 5
With the economies of asia sky rocketting and the world getting more and more globalized by the day, it makes it essential to know more about customs and beliefs around the world. This is a great book to start with.
Rating: 5 / 5
I am preparing for my first trip to India. I purchased this book along with the Lonely Planet guides to India and Rajasthan. I must say that this book doesn’t really give that much more by way of guidance than your basic wikipedia article or the section on etiquette in the LP guide. Most of the book consists in glosses on Indian religion, politics, and culture. While there is worthwhile advice to be found in this book, I do not recommend it as a way to understand Indian culture or to follow Indian norms. In both this book falls short. Instead, this is “India for Idiots”, a banal and trifling discussion of the most basic Indian practices (’don’t shake with your left hand, bring toilet paper and other boring suggestions are everywhere in this book).
If you want a rough guide, use the web. Forums like IndiaMike provide more in-depth advice about Indian customs than books like this.
Rating: 3 / 5
I will be going on a mission trip this fall and wanted something that would give me useful information – this did the job!
Rating: 5 / 5