Our recent post on high / low context cultures can help navigate
cultural faux pas.
Another excellent resource to avoid
cultural faux pas is «Kiss, Bow, or Shake Hands: Sales and Marketing» by Terri Morrison and Wayne Conaway.
You might not think that
a cultural faux pas or two would be a problem, but in some countries, a cross-cultural mistake can land them in jail or provoke a physical attack.
Whether you're scouting hotels and restaurants for a guidebook, blogging about
your cultural faux pas on your website or selling a travel narrative to a national newspaper, the backbone of every great travel tale is solid base of on - location research...
Not exact matches
I did, however, commit a
cultural faux -
pas by requesting the fries with mustard!
Cultural differences are easiest factors to make a
faux pas while meeting someone from a different part of the world.
As the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung's Niklas Maak reports, Germany's newly - appointed
cultural minister Bernd Neumann made a
faux -
pas by announcing that the Hamburger Bahnhof had acquired Andy Warhol's Big Electric Chair for a sum that has been estimated at over $ 5 million ($ 6.3 million).