I have a couple of deadlines today. For those of you who have been following the conversation over the past few days, I am linking you back to a post I did last February on my friend, the iceberg. The iceberg in this case represents the visibile and invisible parts of culture which I hope helps clarify the discussion we have been having. Come back and leave me a note!
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- Elizabeth Abbot
- In Rome for over half my life, I have adapted, but continue to grow and strive to thrive. It is a process, but it can be fun. As a Coach and Cross-Cultural Trainer, I help international professionals, their spouses and their organizations move from survive to thrive. Living in a different cultural environment can be a catalyst for personal and professional progress
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A few books to share on Italy and Italian Ways
- Saving Rome, Megan K. Williams (short stories)
- Mother Tongue: An American Life in Italy, Wallis Wilde-Menozzi
- La Bella Figura: A Field Guide to the Italian Mind, Bebbe Severgnini
- An Italian Education, Tim Parks
- Italian Neighbors, Tim Parks
- The Italians, Luigi Barzini
- The Dark Heart of Italy, Tobias Jones
- A Concise History of Italy, Christopher Duggan
- Italian Cultural Studies: an introduction, Editors: David Forgacs and Robert Lumley
- Italy and Its Discontents: 1980-2001, Paul Ginsborg
- A History of Contemporary Italy: Society and Politics 1943-1988, Paul Ginsborg
- The New Italians, Charles Richards
A few books to share on crossing into other cultures
- Homeward Bound, Robin Pascoe
- Studying Abroad / Learning Abroad. J. Daniel Hess
- Cultural Intelligence: Individual Interactions Across Cultures, P. Christopher Earley and Soon Ang
- CQ: Developing Cultural Intelligence at Work, P. Christopher Earley and Soon Ang and Joo-Send Tan
- Cultural Intelligence: People Skills for Global Business, David C. Thomas and Kerr Inkson
- Communicating Across Cultures, Stella Ting-Tooney
- American Cultural Patterns: A Cross-Cultural Perspective, Edward C. Stewart and Milton J. Bennett
- Figuring Foreigners Out, Craig Storti
- Cross-Cultural Dialogues, Craig Storti
- Riding the Waves of Culture, Fons Trompenaars and Charles Hampden-Turner
5 comments:
Exactly!
I especially agreed with your conclusion that most feel threatened by what goes on around us, or what others say...
The outcome? Instead of seeing things from a different perspective, or taking a second to study the "how" or "why", many close up and resort to defensive vocabulary.
Nothing will ever be just one way! Never...
Most of the time, things are not better, or worse, just different...
Very thought provoking, and very insightful.
Methinks you should run a course. I know a few hundred people (myself included) who would benefit.
I linked through the Iceberg post to another post of yours that I thought complemented it beautifully and was very relevant to the discussion of the past few days:
http://culturalmoments.blogspot.com/2007/01/i-found-this-million-dollar-question-on.html
roam2rome, just different indeed!
Rob, Thanks. actually I do train, speak and do orientations and am looking to do it all on a larger scale. Blogging is helping me figure out my niche, which I have discovered is "curious and thoughtful people living, working and studying abroad." I guess you are in this category!
Maryanne, how true that Americans value one thing while not really noticing that the reality doesn't quite match up. Europeans in general are less idealistic about it all.
I've heard similar statements from what I would consider wannabe Italian intellectuals (they haven't quite acehived full intellectual status despite their aspirations). I have trained myself to change the subject. You are much more courageous to initiate discussion.
(I found your blog ages ago, then lost it. This time around I'm bookmarking you.)
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