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Living in the U.S.A.

Alison R. Lanier ; revised by Charles William Gay

Intercultural Press, 1996

5th ed

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Originally published 1973 by Charles Scribner's Sons

Includes index

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This is a guide for corporations, intercultural training firms, international organizations and governmental and non-governmental agencies. New to this edition are sections on housing agreements and leases, college and university education, investment in the US, buying second-hand and relationships. Topics covered include first impressions, customary behaviour patterns and dominant attitudes, business practices and the workplace environment, social manners and courtesies, transportation, money management, medical care, food and dining customs, shopping, communications, and safety and emergencies. For long-term visitors, there are chapters on housing, care of young children, schools, teenage life, household help, religion, friendships and leisure-time activities.

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