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"A person immersed in their familiar home culture is like a fish swimming in the ocean - all is natural, predictable, and just as it should be. Only when the seafood is extracted from this particular, or the individual from their home culture, does it become clear that everything that was familiar and predictable and safe is fully gone, and all learning must start anew." Cultural Dimensions Press is a small publishing house found in the Texas Hill Country. We are dedicated to publishing high quality, low-cost, practical and useful studies of world civilizations. Our dual concentrate isn't just on what North Americans need to know about the civilizations where they intend to travel, live, conduct business, or work, but also on what North Americans need to know about their own ethnic values, beliefs and perspectives. We believe that much too often travel manuals and cross-cultural studies are centered almost exclusively on studying "them", whereas true understanding is based on learning the dynamics of our very own uniquely North American cultural worth as they interface with the worth of these people whose culture you want to understand. To do this dual purpose, we work hard to interview and draw from the experiences of people from diverse ethnic backgrounds even as we attempt to summarize the pathways to mutual understanding. Nevertheless you want to be clear that people realize that our cultural point of view, however hard we stay away from obvious biases, will be "North American - centric". No apologies here - just reasonable disclosure. Our Cultural Dimensions series are not simply a "nice to learn" intellectual exercise; rather, they are designed to be a set of tools that can be employed by students and teachers, international business people, professionals, serious travelers and especially for folks planning to live as expatriates to become far better in growing the kinds of romantic relationships that lead to better personal, family, business and professional outcomes.
