One world, many cultures

Rhetorical Contents

Preface

Introduction

1. The Family in Different Cultures

Gayle Pemberton, "Antidisestablishmentarianism"

Amy Tan, "The Language of Discretion"

Joe Bageant, "Valley of the Gun"

Fritz Peters, "Boyhood with Gurdjieff" France

Steve Sailer, "The Cousin Marriage Conundrum" Iraq

Daniela Deane, "The Little Emperors" China

Firoozeh Dumas, "The Wedding" Iran/U.S.

Lu Xun, "A Happy Family" [Short Story] China

Connecting Cultures

2. Turning Points

Sucheng Chan, "You're Short, Besides!"

Enid Schildkrout, "Body Art as Visual Language"

Christy Brown, "The Letter 'A'" Ireland

Sabine Reichel, "Learning What Was Never Taught" Germany

Tepilit Ole Saitoti, "The Initiation of a Maasai Warrior" Kenya

Douchan Gersi, "Initiated into an Iban Tribe of Headhunters" Borneo

Guanlong Cao, "Chopsticks" China

Meeta Kaur, "Journey by Inner Light" India/U.S.

Connecting Cultures

3. How Culture Shapes Gender Roles

Eengene R. August, "Real Men Don't, or Anti-Male Bias in English"

Judith Ortiz Cofer, "The Myth of the Latin Woman" Puerto Rico/U.S.

Elizabeth W. Fernea and Robert A. Fernea, "A Look Behind the Veil" Saudi Arabia

Serena Nanda, "Arranging a Marriage in India" India

Azar Nafisi, "Reading Lolita in Tehran" Iran

Don Kulick and Thais Machado-Borges, "Leaky" Brazil

Paul Monette, "Becoming a Man"

Shirley Saad, "Amina" [Short Story] Lebanon

Connecting Cultures

4. Working Lives

Barbara Ehrenreich, "Nickel-and-Dimed"

Tamara Draut, "Generation Debt"

Victor Villasenor, "Rain of Gold" Mexico

Helena Norberg-Hodge, "Learning from Ladakh" India

Tomoyuki Iwashita, "Why I Quit the Company" Japan

Hanan al-Shaykh, "What We Think of America" Lebanon/U.S.

Chitra Divakaruni, "Live Free and Starve" India/U.S.

Connecting Cultures

5. Race, Class, and Caste

Itabari Njeri, "What's in a Name?"

Mary Crow Dog and Richard Erdoes, "Civilize Them with a Stick"

Kate Chopin, "Desiree's Baby" [Short Story]

Richard Rodriguez, "On Becoming a Chicano"

Viramma, "A Pariah's Life" India

Kim Foote, "Oburoni No More" Ghana

Immaculee Ilibagiza, "Left to Tell" Rwanda

Connecting Cultures

6. Geopolitical Issues

Mike Marqusee, "Global Sports, American Sports"

Jeremy Rifkin, "Big, Bad Beef"

Stephen Chapman, "The Prisoner's Dilemma" Pakistan

Panos Ioannides, "Gregory" [Short Story] Cyprus

Greg Campbell, "Blood Diamonds" Sierra Leone

Mike Davis, "Poor Man's Air Force"

Ngugi wa Thiong'o, "Decolonising the Mind" Kenya

William Safire, "The Threat of National ID"

Alan M. Dershowitz, "Why Fear National ID Cards?"

Connecting Cultures

7. Experiencing a Different Culture

Ralph Linton, "One Hundred Percent American"

Poranee Natadecha-Sponsel, "Individualism as an American Cultural Value" Thailand/U.S.

Gino Del Guercio, "The Secrets of Haiti's Living Dead" Haiti

David R. Counts, "Too Many Bananas" New Guinea

Kathleen Lee, "The Scent of Two Cities" Vietnam

Laura Bohannan, "Shakespeare in the Bush" Nigeria

Connecting Cultures

8. Customs, Rituals, and Values

Philip Slater, "Want-Creation Fuels Americans' Addictiveness"

Harold Miner, "Body Ritual Among the Nacirema"

Octavio Paz, "Fiesta" Mexico

Napoleon A. Chagnon, "Doing Fieldwork among the Yanomamo" Brazil

Alifa Rifaat, "An Incident in the Ghobashi Household" [Short Story] Egypt

Valerie Steele and John S. Major, "China Chic: East Meets West" China

Connecting Cultures

Pronunciation Key

Credits

Geographical Index

Appendix. Avoiding Plagiarism

Index of Authors and Titles