Preface: Understanding cultures in depth
Acknowledgments and coauthors
Understanding cultural metaphors:
Constructing cultural metaphors
Reading and using this book
When culture does, and does not, matter
Part 2: Authority-Ranking Cultures:
Combining droplets or energies
Similarities and contrasts
Bedouin jewelry and Saudi Arabia:
Recreation, communication, and community integration
Life outside the coffeehouse
Don Ganh: the two side of Vietnam:
French defeat and division into two
Metaphor: the dualities of Don Ganh
Central place of the catholic church
Partitioning and polish identity
Strangers by day, lovers by night
Part 3: Scandinavian Egalitarian Cultures:
Love of untrammeled nature and tradition
Individualism through self-development
From survival to political and economic success
Sauna: a secular "holy" place of equality
Communication: comfort with quietude
Danish Christmas luncheon:
Interdependent individualism
Part 4: Other Egalitarian Cultures:
Diversity of musical instruments
Positional arrangements of the musicians
Precision and synchronicity
Intersection of Gaelic and English
Free-flowing conversation: Irish hospitality
Places of conversations: Irish friends and families
Canadian backpack and flag:
Egalitarianism and outlook
Canadians as non-US Americans
Part 5: Market-Pricing Cultures:
Pregame and halftime entertainment
Selection, the training camp, and the playbook
Individual specialized achievement within the team structure
Aggression, high risks, and unpredictable outcomes
Church of football and celebrating perfection
Traditional British house:
History, politics, economics: laying the foundations
Growing up British: building the house
Being British: living in the house
Part 6: Cleft national Cultures:
Returning to nearby roots
Reinforcing common values
Balancing tradition and change
Israeli Kibbutzim and Moshavim:
Size and behavioral outcomes
Traumas, worldview, and personality
Part 7: Torn National Cultures:
Freedom within the social order
Part 8: Base Culture And Its Diffusion Across Borders (Clusters Of Nations): The Example Of China:
China's Great Wall and cross-culture paradox:
Great Wall: long, tortuous, and complex history
Sun Tzu, war, and the marketplace
Singapore hawker centers:
Ethnic diversity but unity
Synthesizing traditional and new values
Part 9: India, Shiva, And Diversity:
India: the dance of Shiva:
Cyclical Hindu philosophy
Cycle of social interaction
Work and recreation (rejuvenation) cycle
India: a kaleidoscope of diversity:
Kaleidoscope of religions and cultural celebrations
Images of festivals and feasts
Cell phones, call centers, and curriculum
Changing image of cricket
Part 10: Same Metaphor, Different Meanings:
Stratification amid unity
Part 11: Popular Music As cultural Metaphors:
Tango music and composers
Tango singers and their lyrics
Applying what we've learned
Part 12: Perspectives On Continents:
Australian outdoor recreational activities:
Capturing the imagination
New realities: beyond stereotypes
Equality matching among the tall poppies
Sub-Saharan African bush taxi:
African time orientation and fatalism
Communalism and community sharing
Hierarchy in African society: seating
Arrangements in the bush taxi