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Venezuela - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Series: Culture Smart!
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Culture Smart guides help travellers have a more meaningful and successful time abroad through a better understanding of the local culture. Chapters on values, attitudes, customs, and daily life will help you make the most of your visit, while tips on etiquette and communication will help you navigate unfamiliar situations and avoid faux pas.
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One of the most complex countries in Latin America, and one of the least understood, Venezuela is vast, and never dull. Its unique culinary traditions, linguistic quirks, colourful history, and busy annual cycle of festivities are part of a rich cultural heritage left by the Spanish conquistadors and the slaves brought from Africa, combined with elements that can be traced back to the indigenous Amerindian inhabitants.
Venezuelans are known for being friendly, gregarious, and outgoing. They value family above everything, and love to criticise the status quo. However, they are also fiercely proud and protective of their homeland and react poorly to criticism from outsiders. They are optimistic and forward-looking, quick with a joke, and instantly familiar with strangers. The key to their confidence comes from the large extended family groups they grow up in, and the constant round of birthdays, baptisms, weddings, and holidays that bring them all together for music, dancing, and general merrymaking.
Culture Smart! Venezuela takes you beyond the stereotypical descriptions of a tropical petro-state, famous for its beauty queens and its populist president, to provide you with an insider's understanding of the country and its people. It looks at the historical roots of modern-day social values and attitudes. It offers advice on what to expect and how to build personal ties, and outlines how flexibility and patience are crucial to any business venture.
Practical tips, valuable insights, and vital statistics have been marshalled to enable you to get to the heart of this vibrant, sometimes contradictory, and increasingly important country.
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Venezuela - Culture Smart! is praised for its engaging introduction to the unique quirks and customs of Venezuela, offering practical tips to help travellers avoid cultural missteps. The book is noted for being both informative and entertaining, providing insights into the local psyche.
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ISBN: 9781857336573
Publisher: Kuperard
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 13 September 2012
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Kuperard
Edition: New edition
Illustration: Illustrations
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 13.0mm
Width: 110.0mm
Height: 169.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 168
About the Author
Russell Maddicks is a BBC-trained journalist who lived in Venezuela for eleven years. He traveled the length and breadth of the country, and to finance his stay he worked in jobs that helped him to get under the skin of his adopted home: as an English teacher at the British Council; a jungle guide taking tour groups to the base of Angel Falls and the top of Roraima; a translator and interpreter; and a reporter on an English-language newspaper. There are few corners of Venezuela he hasn't visited in his quest to explore every facet of this fascinating country. He is the author of the Bradt Guide to Venezuela (2011).
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