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A review by lofimichelleeo
Au Contraire!: Figuring Out the French by Ruth Mastron, Gilles Asselin
3.0
I know this is supposed to be a book about French culture, but I learned a lot about American culture from reading this. How typically self-centered American of me, I suppose.
The book is aimed towards explaining French culture for the purpose of business relations and from a cross-cultural view with that of Americans. I am far from qualified to say whether or not the descriptions of the French were accurate, I'm sure there are lots of generalizations in this text about the French (just as there are about Americans). The general views and values of the U.S. they described were pretty accurate though, in my opinion, and explained a lot about why there is such a love/hate relationship between France & the U.S. An interesting read.
The book is aimed towards explaining French culture for the purpose of business relations and from a cross-cultural view with that of Americans. I am far from qualified to say whether or not the descriptions of the French were accurate, I'm sure there are lots of generalizations in this text about the French (just as there are about Americans). The general views and values of the U.S. they described were pretty accurate though, in my opinion, and explained a lot about why there is such a love/hate relationship between France & the U.S. An interesting read.