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Cross-Cultural Connections: Stepping Out and Fitting In Around the World is unavailable, but you can change that!

With the new realities of global interconnectedness comes a greater awareness of cultural diversity from place to place. Besides differences in food and fashion, we face significant contrasts of cultural orientation and patterns of thinking. As we travel across cultures, what should we expect? How do we deal with culture shock? And can we truly connect with those we meet? Experienced...

Entering another culture. We have taken considerable space discussing right, wrong and differences. Why? Because entering another culture is about encountering differences, every day, all day. How you handle them determines your level of comfort, ability to function, level of satisfaction and degree to which God can use you. If I have a narrow category of differences, I will try to force nearly everything I see in the new culture into the categories of right and wrong. Furthermore, I usually make
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