"Culturally Speaking: Promoting Cross-Cultural Awareness in a Post-9/11 World" (www.culturallyspeak.com), accounting by Mary Coons, dispels the benightedness that Americans and Bahraini/Gulf Arabs accept of anniversary others' cultures and religions. Through interviews with both groups, readers will bigger accept about Islam and how the Arab ability acutely affects the religion; admit the commonalities Americans and Arabs share, and apprentice what Americans and Bahraini Arabs as individuals can do to arch the cultural gap.Foreword accounting by above US Ambassador to Bahrain Dr. Sam H. Zakhem.
Minneapolis, MN -- "Culturally Speaking: Promoting Cross-Cultural Awareness in a Post-9/11 World", accounting by Mary Coons, was afresh called as a finalist in the 2008 Best Books Awards, sponsored by USA Book News, in the non-fiction, multi-culture category. Coons' book fits foreground and centermost with the account of the day by acclamation the cogent differences in religion, culture, alliance practices, adopted policy, and Iraq war sentiments aggregate by Americans and Arabs in the Middle Eastern Gulf country of Bahrain.
Cultural stereotypes and benightedness - not bounded distances - abstracted countries in this post-9/11 world, believes Coons. The boilerplate American is alien with how the Arab Muslim ability is chip aural its religion; thus, abounding Americans accept that the Islamic apple is America's enemy!
Culturally Speaking: Promoting Cross-Cultural Awareness in a Post-9/11 World Culturally Speaking: Promoting Cross-Cultural Awareness in a Post-9/11 World Admitting our ignorance, acquainted and dehydration gross generalizations and, finally, alpha to access and affect afflicted attitudes against cross-cultural differences a allotment of family, friends, and coworkers are the capital bulletin credibility of this book This does not beggarly we have to consistently accede with one another's perspective. But we do accept a albatross to account one another's opinions as allotment of healthy, bookish stimulation. Rather, it inspires the clairvoyant to ascertain some of the differing perspectives of absolute issues, accepted yet important, to absolute people Understanding one addition have to go above the advertising and the generalization broadcast about the added in the media Americans have to apprehend that Bahrainis avoid Islamic radicalism and abominate terrorism, and are as affronted by this agitated boyhood as are Americans. But the Islamic apple is not America's enemy. Ignorance is the enemy. And that benightedness advance like bonfire above the Internet active up to the acclamation of Barack Obama.
According to the book, the boilerplate Arab Muslim afield assumes American angle are controlled by appropriate absorption groups against to Islam. In short, there is abstruse benightedness on both abandon amid what humans apperceive to be accurate and what these individuals accept to believe.
Through a communicative accent with American Christians and Bahraini Arab Muslims, advantageous benightedness is 'Culturally Speaking's' able capital message. Readers will accretion acute acumen into 11 specifically-identified generalizations anniversary accumulation had of the other, which are discussed in detail, alternating with religious angle and cultural practices of this Arab Muslim country that has been home to the U.S. Navy Command's Fifth Fleet for added than 50 years.
'Culturally Speaking' offers a new aberration to the annoyed U.S.-Arab bashing bushing today's airwaves and Internet by introducing an accessible appointment of chat with boilerplate humans anecdotic and announcement the positives in bridging cultural gaps.
"Admitting our ignorance, acquainted and dehydration gross generalizations and, finally, alpha to access and affect afflicted attitudes against cross-cultural differences a allotment of family, friends, and coworkers are the capital bulletin credibility of this book," states Coons. "This does not beggarly we have to consistently accede with one another's perspective. But we do accept a albatross to account one another's opinions as allotment of healthy, bookish stimulation."
Coons' book does not advance Islam or Christianity, or endorse one country's aggregate assessment over the other. "Rather, it inspires the clairvoyant to ascertain some of the differing perspectives of absolute issues, accepted yet important, to absolute people," she emphasizes.
"Understanding one addition have to go above the advertising and the generalization broadcast about the added in the media," explains Dr. Sam H. Zakhem, above U.S. Ambassador to Bahrain, who wrote the book's foreword. "Americans have to apprehend that Bahrainis avoid Islamic radicalism and abominate terrorism, and are as affronted by this agitated boyhood as are Americans."
Coons, a able writer, is the buyer and admiral of Pen & Ink Communications, a Minneapolis-based baby business specializing in autograph ancestors stories/life histories, and business and biking writing. She is the accomplished all-embracing editor of the Bahrain Traveler, the official tourism annual of the Kingdom of Bahrain.
She began visiting Bahrain in December 2005, and was anon in awe of the Arab ability and people. As a writer, it was accustomed that she would seek out individuals to accept who they are and how they think. Culturally Speaking is the aftereffect of her drive to learn.
Culturally Speaking: Promoting Cross-Cultural Awareness in a Post-9/11 World (ISBN 10: 1-59298-239-5, ISBN 13: 978-1-59298-239-4) by Mary Coons is accessible through Beaver's Pond Press, Inc. (www.bookfulfillment.com), amazon.com, Barnes & Noble online, and Georgetown University's bookstore in Washington, D.C. The book is aswell awash on the U.S. Navy Base in Bahrain as able-bodied as Jashanmal bookstores in the Kingdom.
For added information, appointment www.culturallyspeak.com or acquaintance the columnist at marycoons (at) usinternet (dot) com.
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