Belgium - Culture Smart! - The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture (Varga Bernadett)(Paperback / softback)

Don't just see the sights--get to know the people.Belgium has somehow acquired the reputation of being Europe's most boring country--a reputation that is entirely undeserved. But perhaps this bland image is a smokescreen, the conventional exterior hiding a subversive sense of humor, a surreal imagination, and a deep-rooted disdain for authority. Or perhaps it is a camouflage, a way in which Belgium, still overrun--however peacefully--by foreigners, can keep a few of its secrets to itself.Two main factors seem to determine the values Belgians hold and the ways they approach life: the effects of the linguistic divide, and the country's long history of exposure to other cultures through trade, war, and occupation--its experience of being simultaneously very small and very strategically placed.Culture Smart! Belgium will help you navigate these swirling
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