Culture Briefing: Spain

Your guide to Spanish culture and customs

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Culture Briefing Spain gives you current, in-depth information to help you understand the culture, customs, values and beliefs of the Spanish people.

Whether traveling to Spain, working on a class paper or doing business with the Spanish, you'll find Culture Briefing: Spain an invaluable resource.

If you're traveling to the country, supplement your travel guide with Culture Briefing: Spain. It will let you enrich your trip, gaining more knowledge, enjoyment and insight — and more financial success when traveling on business.

You'll also receive the information you need to help you feel comfortable in what might otherwise be a strange environment. You’ll gain the wisdom necessary to talk intelligently with the Spanish, discussing the life they live, deciphering and interpreting how they think and behave.

No longer will you run the risk of embarrassment when in conversation with a Spaniard because you brought up a taboo subject, couldn’t comment on an aspect of local life or knew nothing of the Spanish form of government.

Culture Briefing: Spain helps you figure out the Spanish by penetrating below their society’s surface to reveal the customs and established ways of life in Spain.

With Culture Briefing: Spain you’ll discover the character, values, beliefs and customs of the Spanish. You’ll learn of their artistic endeavors and political ways. You’ll find out about their home, family and religious life as well as how they make a living, educate their children and spend their leisure time. Plus, you'll get insight into doing business with the Spanish.

You’ll also discover the problems the Spanish people face and see how they handle them.


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In today’s increasingly smaller world, understanding the ways of the earth’s other peoples is an essential skill. And Culture Briefing: Spain can aid you in gaining that expertise.


Get insight into the Spanish way of life

With Culture Briefing: Spain, you’ll discover:

  • why Spain is unique among Western European countries

  • what impression the average Spaniard seeks to project to others

  • what slight a Spaniard would find impossible to forgive

  • why when talking with a Spaniard you may find yourself often interrupted

  • what conversation topics to avoid

  • the ins and outs of Spanish names and how to use them properly

  • what gift to bring if invited to a home

  • how to compliment a Spaniard who has performed a service for you

  • at what point to discuss business during a business lunch

  • what to expect during a business meeting

  • what traits are more important to the Spanish than your business expertise

  • which Spanish subcultures are likely to be more loyal to their native region than to Spain

  • why the Spanish people have historically been inclined to live in cities rather than the countryside

  • how to signal, when eating in a Spanish home, that you do not desire a second helping, or that you do

  • and much, much more


Contents of Culture Briefing: Spain


INTRODUCTION
Fast Facts

HISTORY

THE SPANISH PEOPLE
Customs and Ways
Do's and Don'ts
Conducting Business
Subcultures
Class Distinctions
Language

HOME AND FAMILY
Marriage
The Role of Women
Names
Health and Welfare
Dress
Food and Dining


EDUCATING THE CHILDREN

RELIGIOUS PRACTICES

MAKING A LIVING

PASSING LEISURE TIME

THE ARTS
Painting
Flamenco
Literature
Bullfighting

POLITICAL WAYS
Parties

USEFUL CONTACTS


Who will benefit from Culture Briefing: Spain


Culture Briefing: Spain
is an essential tool for:
  • Travelers, whether on a tour or traveling independently, who are curious about the ways of life of the people they will meet in Spain.

  • Business travelers seeking success in their business travel through knowledge of the character, values, beliefs and business ways of their contacts in Spain.

  • Researchers needing current information on the customs, ways of life and lifestyle of the Spanish.

  • Teachers requiring up-to-date data on Spanish culture.

  • Students wanting to learn about the character, customs, values, lifestyle and beliefs of the Spanish.

  • Study-abroad students desiring in-depth information on the customs and ways of life where they will live and study.

  • Military personnel requiring knowledge of the people's customs and lifestyle for an assignment in Spain.

  • Travel agents needing insight into the issues, culture and customs in the country to which they are sending travelers.

  • Anyone striving to understand Spanish culture.


Frequent updates assure current information


Research is ongoing and Culture Briefing: Spain is frequently updated, assuring you it contains current information.



Special features improve usefulness

Culture Briefing: Spain contains special features that increase its usefulness:

  • A complete table of contents lets you find information quickly.

  • A “Do's and Don’ts” list helps keep you on the right foot.

  • A “Fast Facts” box provides quick reference to the names of Spain’s current heads of state and government as well as quality-of-life statistics

  • Two maps show: 1) Spain’s position in Europe, 2) Spain’s major features, areas, rivers and cities.

Experts prepare your Culture Briefing

Culture Briefing: Spain
offers solid, authoritative information. It is produced by a team that brings together backgrounds in cultural geography and cultural anthropology as well as extensive experience living for extended periods in a variety of foreign cultures and writing about travel, geography and culture for both the popular press and college-level textbooks.


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