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This book is divided into three sections: 1) Global Impressions; 2) Cross-Cultural Journeys Within the U.S. Culture; and 3) Unique Cross-Cultural Considerations. Global Impressions presents observations from Schnell´s visits to the six humanly inhabited continents. The observations are dated and offer insights to the functioning of each culture at a given point in time. Cross-Cultural Journeys Within the U.S. Culture shares his observations of varied locations in the United States that involved unique cultural constructs: a hippie commune, social fraternity, church camp, small college and religion based retreat community. Unique Cross-Cultural Considerations discusses phenomena the cross-cultural traveler can encounter: culture shock, the "open road" as cultural place, and the role of new communication technologies on the evolving cultural context.

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Jim Schnell, Ph.D. is a Professor at Ohio Dominican University. He retired from the USAF, at the rank of Colonel, in 2007 after 30 years of service. His final assignment, from 1993-2007, was as an Assistant Air Attache to China. He is a Fulbright Scholar and has been a visiting scholar at the East-West Center in Hawaii.

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