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Cross-Cultural Partnerships: Navigating the Complexities of Money and Mission ReviewThere are many ways to accidentally sabotage your partnership with someone in another culture. By helping you understand cultural perspectives, this book may help you avoid those mistakes.
Chapters 2 and 3 describe some of the differences between cultures:
*Monochronic view of time compared to polychronic. In one, deadlines control relationships and schedules, while in the other, relationships control deadlines.
*Individualistic compared to collectivist. In the first, people are expected to take care of themselves. In other settings, a person is expected to take care of the whole family. If you get a good job in the collectivist environment, you will gladly help out your siblings and their children. This explains several things I have seen during my overseas travels that confused me.
*Universalism compared to particularism. In some places, the rules apply to everyone across the board. In other places, the stated rules are very situation specific. This helps explains the comment I have heard of "it is easier to get forgiveness than permission". If you are doing ministry in a particularist culture that approach may work. Don't try it with the IRS or Customs.
The author explains many other contrasts, such as differences in context, power distance, and ambiguity, along with the implication of `face' and how to address conflict.
I appreciated an example the author provided on how to change communication style based on the cultural perspectives - If you (as a mid-level accountant) tell your partner (who is the senior executive) that he must send that report by the 20th because you need to meet your deadline, you probably won't get any reports on time. See universalism, monochonic, power distance, `face', and conflict discussions to learn why. Instead, try explaining that when your reports are late, you look bad to your supervisor (a loss of face for you) and if you can not report back to donors how the funds were spent, it will make your organization look bad (loss of face for the organization). The reports are far more likely to arrive on time.
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African Friends and Money Matters: Observations from Africa (Publications in Ethnography, Vol. 37) Review

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African Friends and Money Matters: Observations from Africa (Publications in Ethnography, Vol. 37) ReviewThis is an incisive, sociological story that grips like a good novel.
In the musical "My Fair Lady", Professor Henry Higgins when realizing that he cannot control his "project" student, Eliza Doolittle, sings lamenting "Why can't a woman be more like a man..." It is very easy for us born into a certain culture to have that feeling about particularly 3rd world cultures, and especially about sub-Saharan Africa. Westerners (North Americans and Europeans) often come away from Africa perplexed about life-style and ways of doing things. "Why do they...." and "How do they..." preface our questions when we think of actions we observe that seem counter-productive or may appear to "shoot a society in the foot." Why might money given for fertilizer to be purchased in May, instead be spent on a family wedding in April? How can one be a friend without seeming like a "sugar-daddy"? How can anyone maintain 40 "very-close friends"?
David Maranz, an anthropologist with 25 years experience working in Senegal with the Summer Institute of Linguistics, has written an introduction to the whys and hows of African life, based on his experience and numerous interviews he has had with both native Africas and Westerners living in Africa. This is an "Aha!" type of book, some of which may apply to societies in other countries as well. Dr. Maranz's discoveries are fascinating and often entertaining. Better yet, they provide important answers and background necessary for the respectful and productive interaction of drastically different cultures. He is clear to make the point that his assessment is not a one-size-fits-all in describing the many countries and multiple tribes within countries of Africa. This book is not complicated reading, but serves as an introduction to those curiosities and differences we have with the cultures of a large continent
This book is a MUST READ for anyone who has been to Africa, will be visiting Africa, knows anyone in Africa, or who has any interest in Africa and world affairs. It would also be helpful to native Africans wishing to better understand Western culture. This information may also suggest why what has perhaps worked well for African groups for centuries, may not work so well in the future.African Friends and Money Matters: Observations from Africa (Publications in Ethnography, Vol. 37) Overview

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Cultural Intelligence: Improving Your CQ to Engage Our Multicultural World (Youth, Family, and Culture) Review

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Cultural Intelligence: Improving Your CQ to Engage Our Multicultural World (Youth, Family, and Culture) ReviewDaivd Livermore, in Cultural Intelligence uses the phrase "Improving your CQ to engage our multicultural world." And that's what this book is about - engagement. If you plan on reading the book in your easy chair without having to ever meet, work with, or be challenged by those unlike ourselves, it's a nice read. But if you plan to "engage" with others different than yourself or with those who have different world views, and if you want to be challenged in your thinking and stretched in how you see the world, then this book needs to be in your library.
Having lived and worked as an overseas missionary, an international marketer in the corporate world and now as a missions pastor in the US, I can say that nothing is more important than understanding one's own culture as well as the culture of the group or people with whom you are engaging.
This book presents the tools to understand and improve on how we process seeing through the lens of others who are different than "us."
I especially felt the chapter on Attribution theory and the bounded and centered sets was excellent in showing that how we view salvation and church are influenced by our cultural worldviews. The chapter that speaks to "flexing and not flexing" reminds those going overseas as long-term missionaries of where to draw the line regarding understanding culture and going "native."
A great read that pushes the bounds and reminds us that what is best for the "Other" is sometimes not what we think.
Phil Smart
Missions Pastor - KCC
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