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You, Me and Them - Couverture souple

Levy, Elijah

 
9780595313617: You, Me and Them
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0595313612 ISBN 13 : 9780595313617
Editeur : iUniverse, 2004

Synopsis

You, Me and Them is a captivating, humorous, cleverly written book which will provide the reader with the ultimate enrichment experience related to intercultural awareness.Author Elijah Levy, Ph.D. brings over 15 years experience teaching individuals how to increase their capacity for tolerance and identify their counterproductive biases.In a clever, humorous and engaging style, Dr. Levy guides the reader through how early socialization experiences and reinforcement of culture bound values can result in dichotomous, habitual ways of thinking about others. Throughout the book, Dr. Levy challenges readers to risk exposing their potential cultural and religious biases so they can be checked against reality; so distorted perceptions and cultural assumptions can be removed. Dr. Levy shows readers why differences between cultures are not inherently negative; that it is not that the culture bound values of other cultures are wrong, but that values, norms and customs are relative to a culture and can only be understood in terms of the survival function they serve in a culture. In the end, readers are liberated from their limited, polarized thinking patterns to appreciate and experience a more pluralistic, inclusive view of the world.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

You, Me and Them is a captivating, humorous, cleverly written book which will provide the reader with the ultimate enrichment experience related to intercultural awareness.Author Elijah Levy, Ph.D. brings over 15 years experience teaching individuals how to increase their capacity for tolerance and identify their counterproductive biases.In a clever, humorous and engaging style, Dr. Levy guides the reader through how early socialization experiences and reinforcement of culture bound values can result in dichotomous, habitual ways of thinking about others. Throughout the book, Dr. Levy challenges readers to risk exposing their potential cultural and religious biases so they can be checked against reality; so distorted perceptions and cultural assumptions can be removed. Dr. Levy shows readers why differences between cultures are not inherently negative; that it is not that the culture bound values of other cultures are wrong, but that values, norms and customs are relative to a culture and can only be understood in terms of the survival function they serve in a culture. In the end, readers are liberated from their limited, polarized thinking patterns to appreciate and experience a more pluralistic, inclusive view of the world.

Biographie de l'auteur

Elijah Levy, Ph.D. is the director of the ?Thinking on Things Institute,? a resource center in Los Alamitos, California dedicated to supporting non-profit centers. Dr. Levy currently teaches for the University of Redlands and Cerritos College, and he conducts workshops on cultural harmony, tolerance and creative aging.

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Éditeur
iUniverse
Date d'édition
2004
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0595313612
ISBN 13 
9780595313617
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
118
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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