The girl at the baggage claim
explaining the East-West culture gap
Book - 2017
"A personal, provocative, informative, and entertaining study of the different idea Asians and Westerners have of the self and how this plays out in our differing approaches to art, learning, politics, business, and almost everything else"--
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
2017.
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| Edition: | First edition |
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| 250 | |a First edition | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a New York : |b Alfred A. Knopf, |c 2017. | |
| 300 | |a xviii, 310 pages : |b illustrations ; |c 25 cm | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-298) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Part I: We edit the world -- Three edits -- A telling irritation -- Some helpful background -- Part II: The flexi-self -- What is a flexi-self? -- Boundary blurring -- The genius and the master -- Testing, testing -- Patterns and training -- Part III: The big pit self -- How WEIRD we are -- America, an explanation -- Part IV: Meetings and mixings -- Our talking, our selves -- In praise of Ambidependence -- Greatness in two flavors. | |
| 520 | |a "A personal, provocative, informative, and entertaining study of the different idea Asians and Westerners have of the self and how this plays out in our differing approaches to art, learning, politics, business, and almost everything else"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a East and West. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Social psychology. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Culture conflict. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Culture. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a International relations. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a International economic relations. | |
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