Czech Republic - Culture Smart! a Quick Guide to Customs & Etiquette

Culture Smart provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different countries, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. These concise guides tell you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a rapport with your hosts. This inside knowledge will enable you to steer clear of embarrassing gaffes and mistakes, feel confident in unfamiliar situations, and develop trust, friendships, and successful business relationships. Culture Smart offers illuminating insights into the culture and society of a particular country. It will help you to turn your visit-whether on business or for pleasure-into a memorable and enriching experience. Contents include

• customs, values, and traditions
• historical, religious, and political background
• life at home
• leisure, social, and cultural life
• eating and drinking
• do's, don'ts, and taboos
• business practices
• communication, spoken and unspoken

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“" Culture Smart has come to the rescue of hapless travellers." -- Sunday Times Travel”

Culture Smart! has come to the rescue of hapless travellers...' Sunday Times Travel, ' the perfect introduction to the weird, wonderful and downright odd quirks and customs of various countries.' Global Travel, ' full of fascinating, as well as common sense, tips to help you avoid embarrassing faux pas.' Observer, ' as useful as they are entertaining.' Easy Jet Magazine, ' offer glimpses into the psyche of a faraway world.' New York Times

Born and raised in the U.S. state of Montana, Nicole Rosenleaf Ritter moved with her husband to the Czech Republic in 2000 after earning a graduate degree in Russian and East European Studies from Yale University. While in Prague, she worked as an editor and journalism trainer for Transitions Online, an online publication covering the 28 former communist countries in Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and the former Soviet Union. In 2004, about a year after having a baby in Prague an excellent cross-cultural adventure she and her husband returned to the United States to be closer to family. She worked as a freelance writer and editor until 2010, placing hundreds of stories in local, regional, and national media. She then transitioned into public relations, becoming the in-house communications manager for the Project WET Foundation, an international water education nonprofit based in Bozeman, Montana. Nicole is active on Twitter as @rosenleaf.

The sad fact is that many tourists visit the Czech Republic knowing no more about it than that beer is cheap and the women are beautiful. That lack of knowledge has led to frustration among Czechs, most of whom are well-educated and well-informed about the world around them.While the Czechs can often come across as a little stiff, or even unfriendly, beneath the layers of social reserve are a deeply sincere and caring people. It s a side most visitors never get to see unless they are alert to it. Those fortunate enough to make friends with Czechs see it in the fierce loyalty they have for their intimates.The Czechs are also deeply, blackly funny, with a distinctive, many-layered sense of humor. They are a people who have made laughing through tears a national survival strategy.This book introduces you to the customs, values, and attitudes of a remarkable people, and the role of history in shaping these. It describes Czech life at home and in the workplace, and offers practical advice on what to expect and how to behave in unfamiliar social situations.Visiting the Czech Republic will always be worthwhile its incredible sights are enough to satisfy any aesthete s need for beauty. But the real rewards will come for the visitor who cares enough to try to get inside the culture, beyond the reserve to the complex corners of the Czech soul.

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