Culture Shock!: Venezuela (Culture Shock Guides)

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Summary: be prepared!
Review: I recommend this book to anyone who will be spending considerable time in Venezuela. It is useful for a tourist, but essential for someone going there to live! I spent 18 months in Venezuela very recently and I read this book before I went. It helped to cushion the CULTURE SHOCK and make it humorous instead of shocking.

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Summary: I wish I'd seen it earlier
Review: I spent eight months teaching English in Caracas two years ago. I spent nearly as much time trying to find a guide to the country that would tell me what I needed to know as a foreigner. I picked up this book out of curiosity and perhaps out of snobbery... I had been there, so what could a mere book tell me? I was wrong. I learnt a lot and found myself smiling in agreement at some of the situations it described as I had been through them myself. While I could have done without the history section, the rest of it was right on the button. An excellent guide to a country that is very alien to a Northern European person like myself. Excellent.

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Summary: PERFECT ACCOUNT
Review: If you are planning on visiting Venezuela or if you are just interested in finding out about the Venezuelan culture, I would reccomend this book to you. It is a perfect account of what my experience was like. However, if you are a wild spirit and you wish to have an untainted experience of the country...then I would not reccomend this book to you. Because it is so accurate, it might spoil the fun of your adventure. I enjoyed this book very much. It helped me to understand the people and why they are how they are.