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1. American Cultural Patterns. A cross-cultural perspective. 1991. By: Edward C. Stewart and Milton J. Bennett
Living in the U.S.A. 1996. By: Alison Lanier, revised by C. William Gay.
2. The Yin and Yang of American Culture. A paradox. 2001. By: Eun Y. Kim.
3. Turning Bricks into Jade. Critical incidents for mutual understanding among Chinese and Americans. 2000. By: Mary Margaret Wang, Richard W. Brislin, Wei-zhong Want, David Williams and Julie Hiyan Chao.
4. CultureGrams (http://onlineedition.culturegrams.com) is a resource that costs a little money. CultureGrams provide an in-depth view of a single U.S. state, a single country or a territory. Each individual CultureGram contains current information on 25 different categories, including the economy, religion, greetings and gestures, visiting, recreation, events and trends, and much more, including development data and a country map.
5. The Center for Applied Linguistics (http://www.cal.org/corc/pubs.htm) also offers an array of choices.
6. American Ways, by Gary Althen (Intercultural Press, Inc., 1988).
7. http://exchanges.state.gov/education/engteaching/pragmatics.htm
8. Bellah et al. Habits of the Heart;
9. Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism;
10. Richard Bailey, Images of English;
11. Michael Kammen, American Culture, American Tastes;
12. Claire Kramsch, Culture in the Language Classroom.