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Discusses research into cultural difference. Extract from Deep Culture - The Hidden Challenges of Global Living, Multilingual Matters, 2007	Cult_difresearch_DCextract.pdf
Culture Shock - Received Wisdom and a Grain of Salt, Originally published in the Bilingual Family Newsletter, Volume 24, Issue 4. Discusses how expatriates are not always the best source of advice for those going abroad.	CultureShock.pdf
This is an extract of the book "Deep Culture: The Hidden Challenges of Global Living". by Joseph Shaules, published by Multilingual Matters. The book will be available from the publisher as of October, 2007. This book examines the deep culture challenges that sojourners face when living abroad, and introduces the Deep Culture model of intercultural learning.	DeepCultureextract.pdf
Class materials: Deep culture learning workbook	Deep-culture-learning-workbook-2009.09.23.pdf
CLass materials. Deep Culture Difference Handout	Deep-Culture-Questions-Handout-2009.09.23.pdf
"The Debate About Cultural Difference: Deep Culture, Cultural Identity, and Culture's Influence on Behavior" by Joseph Shaules, Journal of Intercultural Communication No. 10, 2007 pp. 115-132 (c) SIETAR Japan	JIC-Article-2007.pdf
The full text article "Assessing Intercultural Learning Strategies with Personal Intercultural Change Orientation (PICO) profiles" published in the Intercultural Communication Review, No. 4, 2006.	PDF-ailswpico.pdf
Extract from "Deep Culture" - Discusses how research into cultural difference has been carried out.	Research_culture_dif_extract.pdf
The Deep Culture of Japanese Values, Tcworld, July/August 2008, Discusses how the most difficult cultural differences to deal with are those that are out of awareness. An introduction to the idea of Deep Culture.	tcworld_04_08_Shaules_(2).pdf
This short extract answers the question: What is cultural learning? Taken from Deep Culture: The Hidden Challenges of Global Living, by Joseph Shaules, published by Multilingual Matters.	TheDeepCultureModel-extract.pdf