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The Englishman’s Handbook

by Idries Shah

📖 144 pages 🗓 2004 ISBN 9780863042157

About This Book

A satirical guide to the English national character presented as if written for foreign visitors — using gentle but penetrating humour to reveal cultural conditioning and the arbitrary nature of habits mistaken for universal human nature.

What You'll Learn

See cultural conditioning and arbitrary habit from the refreshing outside perspective of a perceptive observer from another tradition. Recognise in the English examples how all cultures mistake local custom for universal truth. Apply this humorous mirror to examine your own cultural conditioning with greater lightness and curiosity.

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