Switzerland - Culture Smart!

The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Series: Culture Smart!
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Switzerland - Culture Smart! by Kendall Hunter is an insightful guide that helps readers navigate the cultural landscape of Switzerland. It explores Swiss customs, traditions, and social etiquette, offering practical advice for interacting with locals and understanding their way of life. This travel companion enriches the experience of anyone visiting the country by providing essential knowledge on its cultural nuances.
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You might enjoy this book if you're planning a trip to Switzerland or are simply curious about Swiss traditions and daily life. It offers valuable insights into cultural nuances, helping you navigate social etiquette and understand the local mindset. Perfect for both travellers and armchair explorers, it provides a comprehensive guide to appreciating Switzerland's rich cultural tapestry.

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Switzerland - Culture Smart!

Set aside your preconceptions of postcard scenery, chocolate, cheese, faceless bankers, and spotless cities. The real Switzerland is anything but bland. This small, multilingual, and fiercely independent country in the heart of Europe is full of surprises. Culture Smart! Switzerland

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Set aside your preconceptions of postcard scenery, chocolate, cheese, faceless bankers, and spotless cities. The real Switzerland is anything but bland. This small, multilingual, and fiercely independent country in the heart of Europe is full of surprises.

Culture Smart! Switzerland reveals the human dimension of this enigmatic country. It provides a historical overview, explores Swiss values and attitudes, and looks at the cultural continuity of festivals and traditions.

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Reviews highlight Switzerland - Culture Smart! as an insightful guide for travellers, offering practical advice on Swiss customs and etiquette. Reviewers appreciate the book's ability to deliver valuable tips to prevent cultural missteps, and praise it for being both informative and engaging. It's described as an essential primer for understanding Switzerland's unique societal norms.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781787028609

Publisher: Kuperard

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 04 March 2021

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Kuperard

Edition: Revised edition

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 110.0mm

Height: 170.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 200

About the Author

Kendall Hunter is a Canadian freelance journalist, author, photographer, and entrepreneur. A graduate in Political Science from the University of Calgary, she has lived in South Africa, England, Wales, and Switzerland. Her first book, Black Taxi: Shooting South Africa, describes a year she spent working as a news photographer in Johannesburg during that country s first democratic elections. Kendall subsequently lived for ten years in Zurich. Married to a Swiss citizen and with two daughters in the Swiss school system, she wrote a regular column for an expat parenting magazine about raising children in Switzerland. She now lives in Toronto and is the founder and CEO of Culture Dock, a crowd-sourced global travel app.

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