Geoff Crowther (1944–2021)
Auteur de Lonely Planet : Africa on a Shoestring
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Œuvres de Geoff Crowther
Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei: A Travel Survival Kit (Lonely Planet Travel Survival Kit) (1982) 66 exemplaires
Africa on the cheap 1 exemplaire
India : a travel survival kit 1 exemplaire
Mittelamerika 1 exemplaire
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- Date de naissance
- 1944-03-15
- Date de décès
- 2021-04-13
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- UK
- Lieu de naissance
- Todmotden, Yorkshire, England, UK
- Lieu du décès
- Southeast Queensland, Australia
- Cause du décès
- dementia (complications)
- Lieux de résidence
- London, England, UK
- Études
- Calder High School, Mytholmroyd, Yorkshire
- Professions
- travel writer
- Organisations
- Lonely Planet
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Critiques
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- 1
- Membres
- 299
- Popularité
- #78,483
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 3
- ISBN
- 24
- Langues
- 3
• Do your research and learn about your African country’s native background - their husbands, wives, friends, and neighbors. Find out about their origins, customs, and languages.
• Be sure to visit the places of interest. Interact with Africans at festivals, bazaars, fairs, and in community groups.
• Engage Africans in conversation - remembering that communication is essential, by being sensitive to their verbal and nonverbal language.
• It’s necessary to treat Africans and their culture with respect, and try not to denigrate them. You’ve to learn more about their country.
• By exploring the nature of the African country’s educational system, meet with support groups, pay attention to similarities, and differences to that of your country.
• Be sensitive to African religious differences. Try to be open-minded about their faith traditions, e.g., Indigenous, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, etc.
• Avoid condescending and derogatory remarks. Focus on your visit by emphasizing what’s important. Take the high road.
• Be accepting of the ways African natives view themselves, and don’t make judgments based on your own background.
• Respect an African culture’s festivities, ceremonies, and rights of passages by accepting its strengths, but not being hung up on weaknesses.
• Be cognizant of African foods and dress. Try understanding how they are part of the mainstream of their culture.
• With the images of natives portrayed in the foreign media, endeavor to know more about the geography of their country, or region. Separate sensationalism from reality.
• As opportunities arise while traveling learn firsthand what other African societies are like. It’s best to learn about their culture in its own environment.… (plus d'informations)