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"Jaw-Droppingly Hilarious!" Carol Romaine-Penn, Award Winning Writer
National Indie Excellence Award Finalist, Multicultural Nonfiction
An Amazon Top-10 Best Seller in Travel/Mexico, Humor, Biography/Memoir, Crimes & Criminals, Teen & Young Adult Biographies, Solo Travel, & Single Parenting
BookLife Prize, 2017
Tons of cultural tidbits tucked between the chuckles
Sample chapters at www.DrSonna.org
20% of profits go to the ACLU
Includes discussion questions for book clubs & classrooms
Covers topics for multicultural and diversity courses:
- The women's movement & the 60s cultural revolution
- Immigrant adjustment & adaptation
- Immigrant parenting
- Identity development in 1st generation children of immigrants
- Minority group issues (racism, sexism, prejudice)
- Values & attitudes in individualist vs. interdependent cultures
- Diverse customs & mores
- Diverse orientations to time (past/present/future)
- Diverse orientations to activity (being/becoming/doing)
- Diverse orientations to social relations (hierarchical/collateral/individual)
- Diverse views of nature (fate/destiny/genetics vs. personal mastery/self-efficacy)
- Cultural evolution & expatriate re-integration
- Culture shock
About the author
Dr. Linda Sonna grew up in the Chicago suburbs and graduated from the University of Illinois. She maintained a private counseling psychology practice; authored ten psychology self-help books; wrote a nationally self-syndicated column; taught psychology and human development at the Dallas Community College District in TX; taught at the University of New Mexico in Taos; and served as professor of multicultural counseling at Yorkville University in Canada. She has lived in Mexico for over a decade. Access her full vita at www.DrSonna.org
