<h2>Rhetorical Contents</h2> <div class="c-section-headers-non-traditional-number-list_container"> <ul> <li><strong>Preface</strong></li> <li><strong>Introduction</strong></li> </ul> <ol> <li><strong>Family and Friends</strong> <ul> <li>Fred Pearce, “TV as Birth Control,” India/Mexico/Brazil</li> <li>Joe Bageant, “Valley of the Gun,” United States</li> <li>Meeta Kaur, “Journey by Inner Light,” India/United States</li> <li>Neal Gabler, “The Social Networks,” United States</li> <li>Gary Shteyngart, “Sixty-Nine Cents,” Russia/United States</li> <li>Dr. Rose Ihedigbo, “Sandals in the Snow,” Nigeria/United States</li> <li>Connecting Cultures</li> </ul> </li> <li><strong>Life Experiences</strong> <ul> <li>Sucheng Chan, “You’re Short, Besides!” China/United States</li> <li>Enid Schildkrout, “Body Art as Visual Language,” United States</li> <li>Anwar F. Accawi, “The Telephone,” Lebanon</li> <li>Reyna Grande, “The Distance between Us,” Mexico</li> <li>Connecting Cultures</li> </ul> </li> <li><strong>Love and Marriage</strong> <ul> <li>Anchee Min, “The Cooked Seed,” China/United States</li> <li>Loung Ung, “Double Happiness,” Cambodia/United States</li> <li>Firoozeh Dumas, “The Wedding,” Iran/United States</li> <li>Shoba Narayan, “Monsoon Wedding,” India</li> <li>Connecting Cultures</li> </ul> </li> <li><strong>Working Lives</strong> <ul> <li>Helena Norberg-Hodge, “Learning from Ladakh,” India</li> <li>José Antonio Burciaga, “My Ecumenical Father,” Mexico</li> <li>Chitra Divakaruni, “Live Free and Starve,” India</li> <li>Julia Cooke, “Amigos,” Cuba</li> <li>Joshua Hammer, “The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu,” Mali</li> <li>Peter Hessler, “The Restaurant Owner,” China</li> <li>Connecting Cultures</li> </ul> </li> <li><strong>Class</strong> <ul> <li>Judith Ortiz Cofer, “The Myth of the Latin Woman,” Puerto Rico/United States</li> <li>Immaculée Ilibagiza, “Left to Tell,” Rwanda</li> <li>Mary Crow Dog and Richard Erdoes, “Civilize Them with a Stick,” Lakota</li> <li>Jo Goodwin Parker, “What Is Poverty?” United States</li> <li>Gordon Parks, “Flavio’s Home,” Brazil</li> <li>Oksana Marafioti, “The Curbs of Beverly Hills,” Russia/United States</li> <li>Don Kulick and Thaïs Machado-Borges, “Leaky,” Brazil</li> <li>Connecting Cultures</li> </ul> </li> <li><strong>Strangers in a Strange Land</strong> <ul> <li>Amparo B. Ojeda, “Growing Up American: Doing the Right Thing,” Philippines/United States</li> <li>André Aciman, “Out of Egypt,” Egypt</li> <li>Gustavo Perez Firmat, “This Must Be the Place,” Cuba/United States</li> <li>Stephen Chapman, “The Prisoner’s Dilemma,” Pakistan</li> <li>Piers Hernu, “Norway’s Ideal Prison,” Norway</li> <li>Poranee Natadecha-Sponsel, “Individualism as an American Cultural Value,” Thailand/United States</li> <li>Elizabeth W. and Robert A. Fernea, “A Look Behind the Veil,” Saudi Arabia</li> <li>Connecting Cultures</li> </ul> </li> <li><strong>Food for Thought</strong> <ul> <li>Marcus Samuelsson, “Helga,” Sweden</li> <li>David R. Counts, “Too Many Bananas,” New Guinea</li> <li>Aleksandar Hemon, “Family Dining,” Bosnia</li> <li>Ethel G. Hofman, “An Island Passover,” Scotland</li> <li>Andrew X. Pham, “Foreign-Asians,” Vietnam</li> <li>Frederick Douglass, “My Bondage and My Freedom,” United States</li> <li>Joseph K. Skinner, “Big Mac and the Tropical Forests,” Costa Rica</li> <li>Connecting Cultures</li> </ul> </li> <li><strong>Customs</strong> <ul> <li>Harold Miner, “Body Ritual among the Nacirema,” United States</li> <li>Philip Slater, “Want-Creation Fuels Americans’ Addictiveness,” United States</li> <li>Valerie Steele and John S. Major, “China Chic: East Meets West,” China</li> <li>Eugene Linden, “Shamans, Healers and Experiences I Can’t Explain,” Republic of the Congo</li> <li>Kao Kalia Yang, “Walking Back Alone,” Laos/United States</li> <li>Gino Del Guercio, “The Secrets of Voodoo in Haiti,” Haiti</li> <li>Connecting Cultures</li> </ul> </li> </ol> <h4 class="h5">Pronunciation Key</h4> <h4 class="h5">Credits</h4> <h4 class="h5">Geographical Index</h4> <h4 class="h5">Index of Authors and Titles</h4> </div>
