Travel to South America

Culture Shock!: Venezuela (Culture Shock Guides)

Format: Paperback
Author: Kitt Baguley
ReleaseDate: October, 1999
Publisher: Graphic Arts Center Publishing Company
Rating:

be prepared!
It is useful for a tourist, but essential for someone going there to live! I spent 18 months in Venezuela very recently and I read this book before I went. I recommend this book to anyone who will be spending considerable time in Venezuela. It helped to cushion the CULTURE SHOCK and make it humorous instead of shocking.

PERFECT ACCOUNT
It is a perfect account of what my experience was like. If you are planning on visiting Venezuela or if you are just interested in finding out about the Venezuelan culture, I would reccomend this book to you. However, if you are a wild spirit and you wish to have an untainted experience of the country. . . then I would not reccomend this book to you. Because it is so accurate, it might spoil the fun of your adventure. I enjoyed this book very much. It helped me to understand the people and why they are how they are.

I wish I'd seen it earlier
I spent nearly as much time trying to find a guide to the country that would tell me what I needed to know as a foreigner. I spent eight months teaching English in Caracas two years ago. I picked up this book out of curiosity and perhaps out of snobbery. . . I had been there, so what could a mere book tell me? I was wrong. I learnt a lot and found myself smiling in agreement at some of the situations it described as I had been through them myself. While I could have done without the history section, the rest of it was right on the button. An excellent guide to a country that is very alien to a Northern European person like myself. Excellent.

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