One World, Many Cultures

Stuart Hirschberg is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Rutgers: The State University of New Jersey, Newark. He has written scholarly works on Yeats and on Ted Hughes, and with co-author Terry Hirschberg, has authored eleven college textbooks. His research interests include cross-cultural and multicultural studies, visual rhetoric, and popular culture. Terry Hirschberg has written eleven college textbooks with Stuart Hirschberg in the field of rhetoric and composition.

• Rhetorical Contents PrefaceIntroduction Family and Friends Fred Pearce, “TV as Birth Control,” India/Mexico/BrazilJoe Bageant, “Valley of the Gun,” United StatesMeeta Kaur, “Journey by Inner Light,” India/United StatesNeal Gabler, “The Social Networks,” United StatesGary Shteyngart, “Sixty-Nine Cents,” Russia/United StatesDr. Rose Ihedigbo, “Sandals in the Snow,” Nigeria/United StatesConnecting Cultures Life Experiences Sucheng Chan, “You’re Short, Besides!” China/United StatesEnid Schildkrout, “Body Art as Visual Language,” United StatesAnwar F. Accawi, “The Telephone,” LebanonReyna Grande, “The Distance between Us,” MexicoConnecting Cultures Love and Marriage Anchee Min, “The Cooked Seed,” China/United StatesLoung Ung, “Double Happiness,” Cambodia/United StatesFiroozeh Dumas, “The Wedding,” Iran/United StatesShoba Narayan, “Monsoon Wedding,” IndiaConnecting Cultures Working Lives Helena Norberg-Hodge, “Learning from Ladakh,” IndiaJosé Antonio Burciaga, “My Ecumenical Father,” MexicoChitra Divakaruni, “Live Free and Starve,” IndiaJulia Cooke, “Amigos,” CubaJoshua Hammer, “The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu,” MaliPeter Hessler, “The Restaurant Owner,” ChinaConnecting Cultures Class Judith Ortiz Cofer, “The Myth of the Latin Woman,” Puerto Rico/United StatesImmaculée Ilibagiza, “Left to Tell,” RwandaMary Crow Dog and Richard Erdoes, “Civilize Them with a Stick,” LakotaJo Goodwin Parker, “What Is Poverty?” United StatesGordon Parks, “Flavio’s Home,” BrazilOksana Marafioti, “The Curbs of Beverly Hills,” Russia/United StatesDon Kulick and Thaïs Machado-Borges, “Leaky,” BrazilConnecting Cultures Strangers in a Strange Land Amparo B. Ojeda, “Growing Up American: Doing the Right Thing,” Philippines/United StatesAndré Aciman, “Out of Egypt,” EgyptGustavo Perez Firmat, “This Must Be the Place,” Cuba/United StatesStephen Chapman, “The Prisoner’s Dilemma,” PakistanPiers Hernu, “Norway’s Ideal Prison,” NorwayPoranee Natadecha-Sponsel, “Individualism as an American Cultural Value,” Thailand/United StatesElizabeth W. and Robert A. Fernea, “A Look Behind the Veil,” Saudi ArabiaConnecting Cultures Food for Thought Marcus Samuelsson, “Helga,” SwedenDavid R. Counts, “Too Many Bananas,” New GuineaAleksandar Hemon, “Family Dining,” BosniaEthel G. Hofman, “An Island Passover,” ScotlandAndrew X. Pham, “Foreign-Asians,” VietnamFrederick Douglass, “My Bondage and My Freedom,” United StatesJoseph K. Skinner, “Big Mac and the Tropical Forests,” Costa RicaConnecting Cultures Customs Harold Miner, “Body Ritual among the Nacirema,” United StatesPhilip Slater, “Want-Creation Fuels Americans’ Addictiveness,” United StatesValerie Steele and John S. Major, “China Chic: East Meets West,” ChinaEugene Linden, “Shamans, Healers and Experiences I Can’t Explain,” Republic of the CongoKao Kalia Yang, “Walking Back Alone,” Laos/United StatesGino Del Guercio, “The Secrets of Voodoo in Haiti,” HaitiConnecting Cultures Pronunciation Key Credits Geographical Index Index of Authors and Titles