A Great Course on Culture

In a previous post I mentioned why we love listening to The Great Courses. Undeniably, our favorite of The Great Courses has been:

Customs of the World: Using Cultural Intelligence to Adapt, Wherever You Are

It is about 12 hours of incredibly helpful information regarding our world and its cultures. Professor Livermore begins with a series of lectures on ways to evaluate cultures and then finishes the class by using those tools to study the major cultural groups around the globe.

I would recommend this course to:

  • Someone who has coworkers from other countries
  • Someone who has an interest in traveling outside the USA
  • Someone who is intimidated by those of a different culture and questions “why are they so different”
  • Someone who makes derogatory remarks about another minority group within their city