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.


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.


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.


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.)""""


Sightseeing

Sightseeing

Author: Rattawut Lapcharoensap

Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic

Published: 2007-12-01

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 1555846734

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The national bestseller by the award-winning Thai American author. “A brilliant collection . . . brimming with sharp-clawed survival lessons” (Los Angeles Times). Set in contemporary Thailand, these are generous, radiant tales of family bonds, youthful romance, generational conflicts, and cultural shiftings beneath the glossy surface of a warm, Edenic setting. Written with exceptional acuity, grace, and sophistication, the stories present a nation far removed from its exoticized stereotypes. In the prize-winning opening story “Farangs,” the son of a beachside motel owner commits the cardinal sin of falling for a pretty American tourist. In the novella, “Cockfighter,” a young girl witnesses her proud father’s valiant but foolhardy battle against a local delinquent whose family has a vicious stranglehold on the villagers. Through his vivid assemblage of parents and children, natives and transients, ardent lovers and sworn enemies, Lapcharoensap dares us to look with new eyes at the circumstances that shape our views and the prejudices that form our blind spots. Gorgeous and lush, painful and candid, Sightseeing is an extraordinary reading experience, one that powerfully reveals that when it comes to how we respond to pain, anger, hurt, and love, no place is too far from home. “Lapcharoensap is a commanding, animated tour guide, and a lot more than that—he can write with the bait and the hook of genuine talent . . . [He] has a gift for the detail that catches not only his Thai milieu but teenage life everywhere.” —Darin Strauss, The New York Times Book Review


The Xenophobe's Guide to the Norwegians

The Xenophobe's Guide to the Norwegians

Author: Dan Elloway

Publisher: Xenophobe's Guides

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781906042431

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The Norwegian man-hug is more a show of strength than a greeting and is usually a painful experience for the smaller of the two. There is nothing more important to Norwegians than enjoying the great outdoors. Happily, they have a lot of outdoors to enjoy. Foreigners brought up with the belief that relaxing involves lounging on the sofa may find leisure time in Norway challenging. What makes the Norwegians Norwegian? A witty guide to the views and values that shows why their way is the Norway.What makes the Norwegians NORWEGIAN: A witty guide to the views and values that shows why their way is the Norway - See more at: http: //www.xenophobes.com/the-Norwegians/#sthash.KgRMuHkt.dpuf