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Botswana Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide To Customs & Etiquette
by
Michael Main
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 clea...more
Paperback, 168 pages
Published
October 13th 2010
by Kuperard
(first published 2006)
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This provides a basic introduction for the traveler to Botswana. At first I had high hopes, as the author writes more frankly than some in this series. However, I quickly became tired of the note of condescension toward Batswana that permeates the cultural sections.
There was too little discussion of how male and female travelers should interact with Batswana (a complaint I have about the whole Culture Smart! series), nothing about LGBTQ travelers (homosexual acts are illegal), and t...more
There was too little discussion of how male and female travelers should interact with Batswana (a complaint I have about the whole Culture Smart! series), nothing about LGBTQ travelers (homosexual acts are illegal), and t...more
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A quick read that gives a surprisingly good review of Botswana culture for a travel book. Would be useful to anyone traveling to the country with a desire to have a general understanding of the history, politics, and cultural aspects of the country and its people.
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