The Xenophobe's Guide to the Japanese

The Xenophobe's Guide to the Japanese

Author: Sahoko Kaji

Publisher: Oval Projects

Published: 2010-02-26

Total Pages: 74

ISBN-13: 1908120630

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A guide to understanding the Japanese which goes beyond the etiquette to uncover the real nature of the people of the rising sun.


Xenophobe's Guide to the Japanese

Xenophobe's Guide to the Japanese

Author: Sahoko Kaji

Publisher: Oval Projects Ltd

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781906042400

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"The quintessence of unspoken mutual understanding is to be found in the word yoroshiku: 'You have understood what I want you to do. I have understood that you have understood what I want you to do. Therefore I leave it up to you to finish the task and I expect it to be done in the way I want it to be done. And I thank you for understanding me and agreeing to take the trouble to do the task.' All this in four syllables." "For all the apparent worship of the way of the warrior, being yasashii, which means being gentle, tender, caring, yielding and considerate, is very important in Japan. Asked what a Japanese values most in a potential spouse, both sexes tend to put being being yasashii at the top of their list of desirable virtues. The concept is even applied to the inanimate. For instance, a car or shampoo can be yasashii to you, to the eye, and to the environment."


The Xenophobe's Guide to the Danes

The Xenophobe's Guide to the Danes

Author: Helen Dyrbye

Publisher: Oval Projects

Published: 2008-10-09

Total Pages: 89

ISBN-13: 190812024X

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A guide to understanding the Danes that highlights their character and behaviour with warmth and wit.


The Xenophobe's Guide to the Finns

The Xenophobe's Guide to the Finns

Author: Tarja Moles

Publisher: Oval Projects

Published: 2011-05-13

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13: 1908120363

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A guide to understanding the Finns that explores their national characteristics with humour and style.


The Xenophobe's Guide to the Aussies

The Xenophobe's Guide to the Aussies

Author: Ken Hunt

Publisher: Oval Projects Ltd

Published: 2006-04

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781903096864

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'Aussies do say "G'day". At all levels of friendship, all levels of formality and all levels of family familiarity. The first word between two lovers in the morning is "G'day". The other main greeting would have to be "G'day mate". The reason why this brief greeting has such universal acceptance is simple: it's the flies. The longer your mouth is open the more flies that can crawl in.' Xenophobia is an irrational fear of foreigners, probably justified, always understandable. Xenophobe's Guides - an irreverent look at the beliefs and foibles of nations, almost guaranteed to cure Xenophobia. Xenophobe's Motto – Forewarned is forearmed.


Xenophobe's Guide to the English

Xenophobe's Guide to the English

Author: Antony Miall

Publisher: Xenophobe's Guide

Published: 2008-04

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781906042295

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Highlights the unique character and behavior of the nation. Frank, irreverent, funny--almost guaranteed to cure Xenophobia.


America for Americans

America for Americans

Author: Erika Lee

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 2019-11-26

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 1541672593

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This definitive history of American xenophobia is "essential reading for anyone who wants to build a more inclusive society" (Ibram X. Kendi, New York Times-bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist). The United States is known as a nation of immigrants. But it is also a nation of xenophobia. In America for Americans, Erika Lee shows that an irrational fear, hatred, and hostility toward immigrants has been a defining feature of our nation from the colonial era to the Trump era. Benjamin Franklin ridiculed Germans for their "strange and foreign ways." Americans' anxiety over Irish Catholics turned xenophobia into a national political movement. Chinese immigrants were excluded, Japanese incarcerated, and Mexicans deported. Today, Americans fear Muslims, Latinos, and the so-called browning of America. Forcing us to confront this history, Lee explains how xenophobia works, why it has endured, and how it threatens America. Now updated with an epilogue reflecting on how the coronavirus pandemic turbocharged xenophobia, America for Americans is an urgent spur to action for any concerned citizen.


Xenophobe's Guide to the Austrians

Xenophobe's Guide to the Austrians

Author: Louis James

Publisher: Xenophobe's Guide

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781906042219

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A guide to understanding the Austrians that delves into the cultural curiosities and peculiar characteristics of this land-locked nation"""""The Austrian needs lots of persuading to have his traditions tampered with in the name of modernization and efficiency. He is attached to his sausage, his insipid beer, and the young white wine that tastes so remarkably like iron filings. He prefers the familiar, tried, and tested to the novelty, the latter almost certainly being an attempt by persons unknown to make money at his expense.""""""""Home life for the Austrians is a never-ending quest for Gemutlichkeit or coziness, which is achieved by accumulating objects that run the gamut from the pleasingly aesthetic to the mind-blowingly kitsch.""""""""In Austria detonating pretension is a national pastime. It has to do with attitudes to power that date back to an absolutist form of government and with the self-irony developed by people who were (or thought they were) more talented than the authority to which they had to defer.""""""""The paradoxical character of the Austrian mingles profoundly conservative attitudes with a flair for innovation and invention. This creative tension usually takes the form of official obstructionism to good ideas, but sometimes the other way round. For example, the population were outraged by Josef II's attempt to make them adopt reusable coffins with flaps on the underside for dropping out the corpses. (The Emperor was forced to retreat, grumbling as he did so about the people's wasteful attitude.)""""


Xenophobe's Guide to the Russians

Xenophobe's Guide to the Russians

Author: Vladimir Zhelvis

Publisher: Xenophobe's Guides

Published: 2010-08-31

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781906042462

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A guide to understanding the Russians which goes behind the curtain of bearishness to reveal their soft underbelly and highlights the unique character and behavior of the nation. Frank, irreverent, funny--almost guaranteed to cure Xenophobia.