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If you are heading to the United States, this book could be more valuable than an English dictionary or Alka Seltzer tablets to digest the greasy food at the fast food places. This isn’t a traditional guidebook that directs you to a particular hotel or helps you apply for a driver’s license. What it will do is take you inside American idioms, serve you a slice of apple pie, and then show you what’s under the crust.
Organized into twenty chapters, the author boldly answers questions like the following. Why do many young Americans leave home when they turn eighteen years old? What is American food? Why are so many Americans on diets but still overweight? How do we judge if an American is just being friendly or truly being a friend? Why don’t Americans learn another language?
You’ll find everything foreigners always want to know about Americans but are afraid to ask. Actually, many of them have asked but no one has answered them until now. In this book, the American author answers the real questions that foreigners have asked her in the course of her international career.
From growing up to growing old, every important cultural topic is covered here, including some controversial ones such as being independent from your family, racial identity and religious practices which are themes usually missing in guidebooks. Foreigners will feel 100% more comfortable being in the United States with a book that uncovers and explains the hidden values of the American people.
Americans who are curious about what foreigners want to know about the United States and its people will find this book entertaining as well. You’ll laugh when you see yourself described in its pages. At the same time, you’ll learn how American attitudes and customs compare to those of other countries.
What’s Up America? will make readers, both Americans and foreigners alike, want to learn more about the rest of the world.
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