- American Cultural Patterns. A cross-cultural perspective. 1991. By:
Edward C. Stewart and Milton J. Bennett
- Living in the U.S.A. 1996. By: Alison Lanier, revised by C. William
Gay.
- The Yin and Yang of American Culture. A paradox. 2001. By: Eun Y.
Kim.
- Another book that might help get ideas for comparing U.S. and Taiwan
cultures is: Turning Bricks into Jade. Critical incidents for mutual
understanding among Chinese and Americans. 2000. By: Mary Margaret Wang,
Richard W. Brislin, Wei-zhong Want, David Williams and Julie Hiyan Chao.
- CultureGrams (http://onlineedition.culturegrams.com)
is a resource that costs a little money. CultureGrams provide an in-depth
view of a single U.S. state, a single country or a territory. Each individual
CultureGram contains current information on 25 different categories,
including the economy, religion, greetings and gestures, visiting, recreation,
events and trends, and much more, including development data and a country
map.
- The Center for Applied Linguistics (http://www.cal.org/corc/pubs.htm)
also offers an array of choices.
- American Ways, by Gary Althen (Intercultural Press, Inc., 1988).
- http://exchanges.state.gov/education/engteaching/pragmatics.htm
- Bellah et al. Habits of the Heart;
- Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism;
- Richard Bailey, Images of English;
- Michael Kammen, American Culture, American Tastes;
- Claire Kramsch, Culture in the Language Classroom
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