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This document contains the table of contents for a book on cultural diversity. The contents outline four chapters that will discuss how language shapes reality, the role of cultural conditioning, categorizing cultures along linear-active and multi-active dimensions, and differences in concepts of time across cultures. The chapters are part of Part One which is titled "Getting to Grips with Cultural Diversity".

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This document contains the table of contents for a book on cultural diversity. The contents outline four chapters that will discuss how language shapes reality, the role of cultural conditioning, categorizing cultures along linear-active and multi-active dimensions, and differences in concepts of time across cultures. The chapters are part of Part One which is titled "Getting to Grips with Cultural Diversity".

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Preface to the Third Edition: Us and Them xv


Acknowledgments xxiii

PART ONE
Getting to Grips with Cultural Diversity
1 Different Languages, Different Worlds 3
Appearance and Reality 3
Concepts and Notions 4
Powerful Mental Blocks 7
Language Straitjacket 9
Thought = Internalized Language 11
Humor across Frontiers 12
Humor in Business 14
Making Allowances 15

2 Cultural Conditioning 17
What Is Culture? 17
Culture Shock 19
Who Is Normal, Anyway? 21
It Depends on Our Perception 22

3 Categorizing Cultures 27
Cultural Categories at Cross-Century 27
Linear-Active and Multi-Active Cultures 29
Reactive Cultures 32
Intercategory Comparisons 38
Fine-Tuning Categorization 43
Moving along the LMR Planes 46
Data-Oriented, Dialogue-Oriented and Listening Cultures 48

4 The Use of Time 53


Linear Time 53
Multi-Active Time 55
Cyclic Time 57
Chinese 58
Japanese 59

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