One World, Many Cultures

* Denotes selections new to this edition. Each chapter concludes with “Connecting Cultures” questions.
 
Rhetorical Contents
Preface
 
Introduction.
Critical Reading for Ideas and Organization.
Finding a Thesis.
Responding to What You Read.
Marking as You Read.
Distinguishing Between Fact and Opinion.
A Sample Essay for Student Annotation, Edward T. Hall, “Hidden Culture.”
Keeping a Reading Journal.
Writing Your Essay


1. The Family in Different Cultures
Gayle Pemberton, Antidisestablishmentarianism.
Amy Tan, The Language of Discretion
** Joe Bageant, Valley of the Gun
Fritz Peters, Boyhood with Gurdjieff (France)
Steve Sailer, The Cousin Marriage Conundrum (Iraq)
Daniela Deane, The Little Emperors (China)
** Firoozeh Dumas, The Wedding  (Iran/US)
** Lu Xun, A Happy Family (short story)  (China)
Connecting Cultures

2. Turning Points.
Sucheng Chan, You're Short, Besides!
** Enid Schildkrout, Body Art as Visual Language
Christy Brown, The Letter 'A.'  (Ireland)
Sabine Reichel, Learning What Was Never Taught  (Germany)
** Tepilit Ole Saitoti, The Initiation of a Massai Warrior  (Kenya)
Douchan Gersi, Initiated into an Iban Tribe of Headhunters.  (Borneo)
Guanlong Cao, Chopsticks  (China)
** Meeta Kaur, Journey by Inner Light  (India/US)
Connecting Cultures


3. How Culture Shapes Gender Roles.
** Eugene R. August, Real Men Don’t, or Anti-Male Bias in English
Judith Ortiz Cofer, The Myth of the Latin Woman.
Elizabeth W. Fernea and Robert A. Fernea, A Look Behind the Veil.  (Saudi Arabia)
Serena Nanda, Arranging a Marriage in India.  (India)
** Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran (Iran)
** Don Kulick and Thais Machado-Borges, Leaky (Brazil)
** Paul Monette, Becoming a Man
Shirley Saad, Amina (short story) (Lebanon)
Connecting Cultures

4. Working Lives
Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel- and- Dimed.
** Tamara Draut, Generation Debt
Victor Villaseñor, Rain of Gold.  (Mexico)
Helena Norberg-Hodge, Learning from Ladakh (India)
Tomoyuki Iwashita, Why I Quit the Company  (Japan)
** Hanan Al-Shaykh, What We Think of America  (Lebanon/US)
** A. J. Jacobs, My Outsourced Life (US/India)
Connecting Cultures


5. Race, Class, and Caste.
Itabari Njeri, What’s In a Name?
Mary Crow Dog, Civilize Them with a Stick.
Kate Chopin, Desiree’s Baby (Short Story)
Richard Rodriguez, On Becoming a Chicano
Viramma, A Pariah’s Life  (India)
** Kim Foote, Oburoni No More (Ghana)
** Immaculee Ilibagaza, Left to Tell (Rwanda)
Connecting Cultures

6. Geo-political Issues
** Mike Marquese, Global Sports, American Sports
Jeremy Rifkin, Big, Bad Beef
Stephen Chapman, The Prisoner's Dilemma.  (Pakistan)
Panos Ioannides, Gregory (Short Story)  (Cyprus)
** Greg Campbell, Blood Diamonds (Sierra Leone)
** Mike Davis, Poor Man’s Air Force
Ngûg) Thiong’o, Decolonising the Mind  (Kenya)
** Alan M. Dershowitz, Why Fear National ID Cards?
** William Safire, The Threat of the National ID
Connecting Cultures


7. Experiencing a Different Culture
** Ralph Linton, One Hundred Percent American
Poranee Natadecha-Sponsel, Individualism as an American Cultural Value. (Thailand/US)
Gino del Guercio, The Secrets of Haiti’s Living Dead  (Haiti)
David R. Counts, Too Many Bananas.  (New Guinea)
** Kathleen Lee, The Scent of Two Cities (Viet-Nam)
** Laura Bohannan, Shakespeare in the Bush (West Africa)

8. Customs, Rituals, and Values
** Philip Slater, Want-Creation Fuels Americans’ Addictiveness
Harold Miner, Body Ritual Among the Nacirema
Octavio Paz, Fiesta.  (Mexico)
** Napoleon A. Chagnon, Doing Fieldwork among the Yanomamo (Brazil)
** Alifa Rifaat, An Incident in the Ghoboshi Household (short story) (Egypt)
Valerie Steele and John S. Major, China Chic: East Meets West (China)
 
 
Pronunciation Key
Credits
Search Terms Index
Geographical Index.
APPENDIX:  Avoiding Plagiarism
Index of Authors and Titles

Hirschberg/Hirschberg
One World, Many Cultures, Seventh Edition
The best of all possible worlds! This truly global multicultural reader features contemporary selections by over sixty internationally acclaimed authors from twenty-six countries.
These compelling readings, which explore cultural differences in relation to race, class, gender and nationality, challenge you to compare your experiences with those of others in radically different cultural circumstances. Eight thematic chapters explore cultural perspectives on human experiences around the globe: family life; adolescent relationships; gender roles; work, race and class conflicts; customs, rituals and values.
In this new edition, twenty-seven new readings–close to half the book–provide timely reflections on the issues of today, and new chapters on Geopolitical Issues (Chapter 6) and Experiencing A Different Culture (Chapter 7) challenge the basic assumptions of U.S. culture and explore what it means to be “the other” in a variety of cultures.
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