CONTENTS 4
CHAPTER ONE Cross-Cultural Communication 4
Text One American Values and Assumptions 4
Text Two Where Do We Stand? 22
Text Three A Coward 33
Text Four Sex,Sighs,and Conversation:Why Men and Women Can't Communicate 36
Text Five The Blind Men and the Elephant:A Hindu Fable 41
Text Six The Adjustment Process in a New Culture 42
CHAPTER TWO Stereotyping and Discrimination 46
Text One I Have a Dream 46
Text Two Striking a Nerve 59
Text Three It Cannot Be Helped 69
Text Four Eleven Words That Cast the Power of Bigotry on Honeymoon Couple 71
Text Five Caged Bird 72
CHAPTER THREE Gender Roles 77
Text One Sex Roles 77
Text Two New Realities Fight Old Images of Mother 92
Text Three The Androgynous Male 104
Text Four Cinderella 105
Text Five Women Have What It Takes 106
Text Six Men Have the Power—Why Would They Want to Change? 107
CHAPTER FOUR Work 115
Text One The New American Dreamers 115
Text Two Confessions of a Working Stiff 121
Text Three Worker Poll Shows Family,Fringes Gain Favor 123
Text Four Se？or Payroll 128
Text Five To Be of Use 130
CHAPTER FIVE Education 134
Text One School Is Bad for Children 134
Text Two They Get by with a Lot of Help from Their Kyoiku Mamas 140
Text Three The Teacher Who Changed My Life 142
Text Four Reading,Writing,and Arithmetic and,Now,Right and Wrong 144
Text Five Coyote and the Crying Song 151