Mexico - Culture Smart!: the essential guide to customs & culture [Paperback]

Guy Mavor (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 5, 2006 | Series: Culture Smart!

Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different countries, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. These concise guides tell you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a rapport with your hosts. This inside knowledge will enable you to steer clear of embarrassing gaffes and mistakes, feel confident in unfamiliar situations, and develop trust, friendships, and successful business relationships.

Culture Smart! offers illuminating insights into the culture and society of a particular country. It will help you to turn your visit-whether on business or for pleasure-into a memorable and enriching experience. Contents include


* customs, values, and traditions
* historical, religious, and political background
* life at home
* leisure, social, and cultural life
* eating and drinking
* do's, don'ts, and taboos
* business practices
* communication, spoken and unspoken


"Culture Smart has come to the rescue of hapless travellers." Sunday Times Travel

"... the perfect introduction to the weird, wonderful and downright odd quirks and customs of various countries." Global Travel

"...full of fascinating-as well as common-sense-tips to help you avoid embarrassing faux pas." Observer

"...as useful as they are entertaining." Easyjet Magazine

"...offer glimpses into the psyche of a faraway world." New York Times

Editorial Reviews

Review

Culture Smart! has come to the rescue of hapless travellers, Sunday Times Travel - ...the perfect introduction to the weird, wonderful and downright odd quirks and customs of various countries, Global Travel - ...full of fascinating, as well as common sense, tips to help you avoid embarrassing faux pas, Observer - ...as useful as they are entertaining, Easy Jet Magazine - ...offer glimpses into the psyche of a faraway world, New York Times.

About the Author

GUY MAVOR is a writer and journalist currently based in London. He graduated from the University of Bristol in 1998 with a BA Hons in French and Spanish, specializing in Mexican history and literature. Since then, he has traveled, researched, and written extensively about his experience of other cultures, ancient and modern, for both television and travel publishers. Guy has lived and worked in a number of countries across the globe, including France, Spain, Mexico, and South Africa. He is coauthor of The Greenwood Guide to South Africa.

Product Details

• Paperback: 168 pages
• Publisher: Kuperard; Reprinted edition edition (September 5, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1857333667
• ISBN-13: 978-1857333664
• Product Dimensions: 4.4 x 0.4 x 6.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #673,442 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #47 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Nonfiction > Social Sciences > Customs & Traditions
  • #97 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Reference > Etiquette > General

Customer Reviews

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4.0 out of 5 stars Useful in general, but not on specifics, September 10, 2011

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Jeremy Aldrich (Harrisonburg, VA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mexico - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture (Kindle Edition)

In this little guidebook, you will find more detail than a typical travel-themed TV show, but not enough to plan out a trip without other resources. I suppose you could say that after reading it, you'll have a better idea of what information you need to find next before your trip. Chapters include Land and People, Values and Attitudes, Customs and Traditions, Making Friends, The Mexicans at Home, Time Out, Traveling, Business Briefing, and Communicating. The clipart illustrations were useless and made the book look less professionally-created than it is.