Description:AN AMAZON TOP 10 BESTSELLER (IN HUMOR & BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR) “Spot-on, highly entertaining, and absolutely hilarious.” - Lynne Willard, Editor & U.S. expat. "Extremely well-written, honest, and delightfully funny; a must read for any foreigner living in Mexico!" - Paul Voudouris “Learning about a new culture can be hilarious – as seen through this book!” – Diane Gilliard, Counselor. A suburban housewife liberates herself from her peanut-butter-and-jelly life and flees to Mexico. While battling the cultural quirks that send less adventurous souls hightailing it back to the U.S., she struggles to learn Spanish, cope with foreign customs, raise her children, and run a school. Using her wily wit and gift for gab to outfox the government officials, she smuggles U.S. merchandise to boost her income. But not all of her smuggling tricks and tactics go as planned. - Includes discussion questions for book clubs. - Multicultural issues for class discussions: the women’s movement & the 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, time orientation (past/present/future), activity mode (being/becoming/doing), social relations (hierarchical/collateral/individual), relationship to nature (fate/destiny/genetics vs. personal mastery/self-efficacy), cultural evolution & expatriate re-integration, culture shock.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Tortillas & Peanut Butter: True Confessions of an American Mom Turned Mexican Smuggler. To get started finding Tortillas & Peanut Butter: True Confessions of an American Mom Turned Mexican Smuggler, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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Tortillas & Peanut Butter: True Confessions of an American Mom Turned Mexican Smuggler
Description: AN AMAZON TOP 10 BESTSELLER (IN HUMOR & BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR) “Spot-on, highly entertaining, and absolutely hilarious.” - Lynne Willard, Editor & U.S. expat. "Extremely well-written, honest, and delightfully funny; a must read for any foreigner living in Mexico!" - Paul Voudouris “Learning about a new culture can be hilarious – as seen through this book!” – Diane Gilliard, Counselor. A suburban housewife liberates herself from her peanut-butter-and-jelly life and flees to Mexico. While battling the cultural quirks that send less adventurous souls hightailing it back to the U.S., she struggles to learn Spanish, cope with foreign customs, raise her children, and run a school. Using her wily wit and gift for gab to outfox the government officials, she smuggles U.S. merchandise to boost her income. But not all of her smuggling tricks and tactics go as planned. - Includes discussion questions for book clubs. - Multicultural issues for class discussions: the women’s movement & the 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, time orientation (past/present/future), activity mode (being/becoming/doing), social relations (hierarchical/collateral/individual), relationship to nature (fate/destiny/genetics vs. personal mastery/self-efficacy), cultural evolution & expatriate re-integration, culture shock.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Tortillas & Peanut Butter: True Confessions of an American Mom Turned Mexican Smuggler. To get started finding Tortillas & Peanut Butter: True Confessions of an American Mom Turned Mexican Smuggler, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.