A review by omnibozo22
The Girl at the Baggage Claim: Explaining the East-West Culture Gap by Gish Jen

4.0

Important book, among others, for any westerner (called "weird" in the book) planning on visiting, doing business or living in Asia or even Africa (though her examples are all from Asia). Jen has a repetitive style and wanders pretty far abroad in her set-ups for comparisons and contrasts. Her term for self-centered westerners, Big Pit (as in avocado pit), grates some, especially since her term for Asians is "flexi-self," hardly as gnarly an image.

Most useful are discussions of the meanings of Yes and No in the different cultures and the differing processes and meanings of collaboration.