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*hugs* Thanks for letting us know. We appreciate all you do to keep the WD going. And it was great that you set up this tempoarary board so we could get our fix. So take your time. Get settled in your new house. As someone who has gone through several moves over the last couple years, I know how muc...

Or... "Mugged by conventional wisdom" Or... "Why does having a kid make people think they can now make any assinine comment they want?" (The subject of things people say to new parents always makes me think of the stories on bettie's blog.) So, last night I had my monthly board o...

We currently share our house with three small mammals. In order of age (oldest to youngest), they are: Chuck, an orange cat with a hair-trigger fear reaction and frequent demands that we turn on a bathroom sink and pet him while he drinks from the faucet. He loves to plant himself between Mgan and m...

The thing I would most like to know about inter-cultural communications, is how to research the differences between my culture and the culture I will be dealing with. If you can't tell me in 30 pages what I need to know, use the space to tell me how to find out what I need to know. That's a good id...

It's a bit of a tricky topic, because you have to keep emphasizing that cultural generalisations do not apply to all individuals etc. Yes. Where I've seen things fall down is, to avoid overgeneralizing, they stay too generic. The business comm textbooks I've read tend to make general statements abo...

Define inter-cultural for me, buddy? In a business communications setting like this, it means dealing with co-workers, customers, businesses, etc. who have a different cultural background. In this case, since the textbook is for the Canadian market, it means helping Canadian students to better comm...

Hello, Everyone. As some of you might know, I'm currently co-writing a business communications textbook, aimed at first and second year university students. One of the chapters (one of the ones I have to write, not my co-writer) will be on intercultural communications. I think this is a very importa...

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I just went out to this website to check out an educational software package. I was on the page for a while, when all of a sudden, there's this sound like the old "If this had been an actual emergency" tone. Only, I don't realize it's coming from the computer, and for a second it's 1965 in...