Table of Contents
Rhetorical Contents xi
Preface xiv
Introduction 1
The Family in Different Cultures 27
Gayle Pemberton, "Antidisestablishmentarianism" 29
Amy Tan, "The Language of Discretion" 37
Joe Bageant, "Valley of the Gun" 46
Fritz Peters, "Boyhood with Gurdjieff" France 52
Steve Sailer, "The Cousin Marriage Conundrum" Iraq 57
Daniela Deane, "The Little Emperors" China 64
Firoozeh Dumas, "The Wedding" Iran/U.S. 75
Lu Xun, "A Happy Family" [Short Story] China 84
Connecting Cultures 93
Turning Points 94
Sucheng Chan, "You're Short, Besides!" 96
Enid Schildkrout, "Body Art as Visual Language" 104
Christy Brown, "The Letter 'A'" Ireland 113
Sabine Reichel, "Learning What Was Never Taught" Germany 120
Tepilit Ole Saitoti, "The Initiation of a Maasai Warrior" Kenya 131
Douchan Gersi, "Initiated into an Iban Tribe of Headhunters" Borneo 142
Guanlong Cao, "Chopsticks" China 148
Meeta Kaur, "Journey by Inner Light" India/U.S. 153
Connecting Cultures 163
How Culture Shapes GenderRoles 165
Eengene R. August, "Real Men Don't, or Anti-Male Bias in English" 167
Judith Ortiz Cofer, "The Myth of the Latin Woman" Puerto Rico/U.S. 179
Elizabeth W. Fernea and Robert A. Fernea, "A Look Behind the Veil" Saudi Arabia 185
Serena Nanda, "Arranging a Marriage in India" India 194
Azar Nafisi, "Reading Lolita in Tehran" Iran 204
Don Kulick and Thais Machado-Borges, "Leaky" Brazil 210
Paul Monette, "Becoming a Man" 222
Shirley Saad, "Amina" [Short Story] Lebanon 229
Connecting Cultures 233
Working Lives 235
Barbara Ehrenreich, "Nickel-and-Dimed" 237
Tamara Draut, "Generation Debt" 260
Victor Villasenor, "Rain of Gold" Mexico 266
Helena Norberg-Hodge, "Learning from Ladakh" India 275
Tomoyuki Iwashita, "Why I Quit the Company" Japan 280
Hanan al-Shaykh, "What We Think of America" Lebanon/U.S. 284
Chitra Divakaruni, "Live Free and Starve" India/U.S. 290
Connecting Cultures 294
Race, Class, and Caste 295
Itabari Njeri, "What's in a Name?" 297
Mary Crow Dog and Richard Erdoes, "Civilize Them with a Stick" 304
Kate Chopin, "Desiree's Baby" [Short Story] 312
Richard Rodriguez, "On Becoming a Chicano" 318
Viramma, "A Pariah's Life" India 325
Kim Foote, "Oburoni No More" Ghana 332
Immaculee Ilibagiza, "Left to Tell" Rwanda 341
Connecting Cultures 350
Geopolitical Issues 351
Mike Marqusee, "Global Sports, American Sports" 353
Jeremy Rifkin, "Big, Bad Beef" 360
Stephen Chapman, "The Prisoner's Dilemma" Pakistan 364
Panos Ioannides, "Gregory" [Short Story] Cyprus 372
Greg Campbell, "Blood Diamonds" Sierra Leone 378
Mike Davis, "Poor Man's Air Force" 385
Ngugi wa Thiong'o, "Decolonising the Mind" Kenya 396
William Safire, "The Threat of National ID" 405
Alan M. Dershowitz, "Why Fear National ID Cards?" 408
Connecting Cultures 411
Experiencing a Different Culture 413
Ralph Linton, "One Hundred Percent American" 415
Poranee Natadecha-Sponsel, "Individualism as an American Cultural Value" Thailand/U.S. 419
Gino Del Guercio, "The Secrets of Haiti's Living Dead" Haiti 427
David R. Counts, "Too Many Bananas" New Guinea 436
Kathleen Lee, "The Scent of Two Cities" Vietnam 445
Laura Bohannan, "Shakespeare in the Bush" Nigeria 455
Connecting Cultures 466
Customs, Rituals, and Values 467
Philip Slater, "Want-Creation Fuels Americans' Addictiveness" 469
Harold Miner, "Body Ritual Among the Nacirema" 475
Octavio Paz, "Fiesta" Mexico 481
Napoleon A. Chagnon, "Doing Fieldwork among the Yanomamo" Brazil 488
Alifa Rifaat, "An Incident in the Ghobashi Household" [Short Story] Egypt 503
Valerie Steele and John S. Major, "China Chic: East Meets West" China 508
Connecting Cultures 516
Pronunciation Key 517
Credits 518
Geographical Index 521
Avoiding Plagiarism 523
Index of Authors and Titles 524