Culture Shock Venezuela

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Summary: A Great Guide to Life InVenezuela
Review: Culture Shock! Venezuela is an informative,enjoyable, well-written and extremely useful guide for anyone visiting Venezuela. Although I had already spent 9 months in Spain I needed to know about life in Venezuela and this book told me maynt things I needed to know.

I impressed the Venezuelans I stayed with and their friends with the knowledge I picked up from this book and was warned about some of the downsides of the country. Overall a fine introduction to anyone visiting Venezuela.

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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.

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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.

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Summary: Not up to Culture Shock! series standards
Review: Living in Venezuela, I waited long for a Culture Shock series book about it. After reading it and comparing some of the items with friends I have to conclude that this is the worst Culture Shock book I have read. Most items only tell part of the story and what they say is in a lot of cases incorrect. Also there is a whole section dedicated to travelling, if I wanted a travel guide I can buy a Lonely Planet guide or something similar. I would not recommend this book, experience Venezuela yourself until a good reference book on Venezuelan culture comes onto the market.

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Summary: No shocks in Venezuela.
Review: When I arrived in Venezuela I was fresh from the windswept streets of autumnal London. Caracas was my first experience of South America and the first time I had lived abroad. I spoke almost no Spanish and knew next to nothing about my adopted home. I was immediately enthralled by Venezuela but also aware that there were many things I needed to know that I only later gained through hard-earned experience.

Culture Shock! Venezuela has been written as a mix of hard facts and my own experience to give a picture of what life in Venezuela is like for the Western newcomer. I spent two years researching via the Internet, books, friends and family in Venezuela to provide as accurate a picture as I could of this diverse and little-known country. The book is deliberately broad in scope to cover a variety of aspects of your new life. Chapters include doing business in Venezuela, Venezuelan customs, a guide to Venezuelan Spanish, Venezuelan society and leisure pursuits as well as background information on the politics, history and geography of the country.

A good grasp of Venezuela and the Venezuelans is a vitally important factor in spending a successful and stress-free length of time in this fascinating country. By seeing Venezuela through the eyes of someone who had to adapt to the country, you can prepare yourself for the new and avoid many of the potential confusions and awkward situations that could otherwise occur.