Chapter 12

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1. Check out your tolerance for use of personal space and fill out this survey on different cultures’ uses of space:
2. This link gives you an insight into “American culture.” Check it out to see if you understand your own culture.
3. Take a look at this site about stereotypes of different cultures.  Treat it with caution, but it is a good site of information about how nations see one another.
4. Visit this website to determine what sorts of considerations you would need to make when visiting another country.
5. One of the issues many people have when they visit another culture is that they experience new and, sometimes, exotic foods. Such experiences can be wonderful or they can be unsettling for someone who is used to an “American” diet. Visit this site to compare the foods of these cultures with the foods that you are used to eating in your own culture.