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Survival Kit for Overseas Living: For Americans Planning to Live and Work Abroad
 
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Survival Kit for Overseas Living: For Americans Planning to Live and Work Abroad (Paperback)

by L.Robert Kohls (Author)
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  • Paperback: 197 pages
  • Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing; 3rd edition (21 Jun 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 185788292X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1857882926
  • Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,045,860 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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This handbook provides readers with straightforward information on the potential perils of moving to a new country, such as culture shock, stereotyping, misperceptions and misunderstandings, and provides the tools needed to overcome these obstacles and prepare for a rewarding experience. There is a chapter for families moving abroad which focuses particularly on the concerns of non-working spouses with children. There is also a chapter for short-term visitors who are interested in enriching their experience through some simple cross-cultural communication and adaptation techniques.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A concise classic in cross-cultural preparation, 18 May 2000
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This book has been a life-line to myself and many other expats trying to make sense of the new country they find themselves in - and the tumultuous personal changes it brings. I've lived 12 years overseas, 7 based in France, the last ones here. My work takes me into many other different nations. In each, it's provided straight-forward, practical advice applicable to anyone walking into ANYWHERE. I'm recommending my organisation buy a dozen copies to help newly recruited staff prepare for their overseas adventure. It's been so helpful I can't seem to hang on to a copy myself!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Highly Recommended!, 3 Aug 2004
By Rolf Dobelli "getAbstract.com" (Switzerland) - See all my reviews
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This book, first published in 1979, is still timely and useful, though it shows a few signs of age. It's hard to believe that any Americans in the CNN age are quite as ignorant of the world abroad as they were in the 1970s. However, diversity training and exposure to Thai and Mexican cuisine only goes so far to inoculate Americans against their own inherent cultural assumptions. Yes, this is written for people from the United States and addressed to them directly, but it would be useful to any sojourner trying to shake off hometown assumptions and adapt to life abroad. This volume treats every reader as a neophyte, a Dorothy in the Land of Oz. Author L. Robert Kohls offers a useful series of self-tests and questionnaires, psychological and anthropological frameworks, and practical guidance on routine matters. The book, which is engagingly written, with a wry and sometimes ironic touch, also contains useful appendices. We believe that it merits a place in the library of anyone, particularly any American, who is taking an overseas assignment, however brief.
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