Cross-Cultural Connections

Cross-Cultural Connections: Stepping Out and Fitting in Around the World
By Duane Elmer
Published by InterVarsity Press, 2002
ISBN 0830823093, 9780830823093
200 pages

Table of Contents

Preface

Section 1: Getting a Perspective
1. Monkeys, Mission and Us
2. Your Part of God's Story
3. Right, Wrong and Different

Section 2: Dealing with the New and Different
4. Culture is Everywhere, and It Sneaks Up on You
5. Culture Shocks
6. Identifying Expectations
7. Square Heads and Round Heads
8. Cultural Adjustment Map

Section 3: Attitudes and Skills for Cultural Adjustment
9. Openness: How to Be Approachable
10. Acceptance: How to Be Positive
11. Trust: How to Build Strong Relationships
12. Skills for Cross-Cultural Effectiveness

Section 4: Cultural Differences That Confuse
13. Time and Event
14. Task and Relationship
15. Individualism and Collectivism
16. Categorical and Holistic Thinking
17. Logic: Straight or Curved
18. Achieved Status and Ascribed Status
19. Guilt and Shame
20. Worship Expression: From Low to High

Section 5: Returning Home
21: Re-Entry: You Are Never the Same

Epilogue
Appendix
Notes
Selected Bibliography

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2. These negative attributions lovate the problem in someone else.
3. If the other person is the problem, then we are freed from making any adjustments or seeking understanding the other person must change.
4. This kind of thinking is called calonialism, imperialism, paternalism, neocolonialism. p.58