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Cross-Cultural Advice To Obama: Do Not Apologize To Islamic Arabs In Libya, Egypt, YemenBy Joel Leyden Israel News AgencyJerusalem, The Capital of Israel --- September 13, 2012 ... As a professional, cross-cultural consultant who has trained dozens of diplomats in Israel, I can tell you that Barack Obama and the US State Department are making lethal cultural mistakes. Following the tragic murders in Libya of US Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three members of his staff, you don't apologize. An apology would be great for politically correct Washington, New York, Hartford, LA, Paris and London but not the Middle East....

Note: The following text is a quote: Officials Plan Cross-cultural Competence Training By Gerry J. Gilmore American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Aug. 12, 2009 – Defense Department officials are developing a new training program that will teach military members and civilians how to be culturally competent and aware when interacting with people from different lands, a senior official told reporters here today. Cross-cultural competence is “something that we want to bring to the department as a critical piece of training that we think needs to be incorporated into our overall training establishment,” Gail H. McGinn, deputy undersecretary of defense for...

The Cross-Cultural Do's And Don'ts Between Israel And US (Photo) The American handshake: smile, eye contact, reach in and maintain physical space. By Joel Leyden Israel News Agency Ra'anana, Israel ---- May 12, 2007 ...... There are many smart and innovative companies in Israel. But even with the finest minds, products and services, quite often business people in Israel trying to penetrate the US market run smack head-on into walls. Cultural walls. Leyden Communications (Israel), a full service, worldwide business to business marketing, media, Internet SEO and e-commerce consultancy organization, has been providing the doing business - the do's and...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - There isn't even a place to sit in the unlit reception area of the nearly empty office that was to have been America Online Inc.'s launchpad to Internet domination in Latin America. Just a handful of employees now remain and a security guard in the mirrored-glass office building that houses AOL Latin America wasn't sure the company was still there. Only six years ago, AOL seemed to have everything going for it when it ventured south of the Rio Grande into a fast-growing market. It had the strength of a powerful U.S. brand, lots of...

Monoculture I once heard a missionary-to-be say, I just want to go and evangelize, why do I need to know about culture? All I need to know is the Gospel and the Bible! That comment demonstrated a certain degree of ignorance on his part for people and cultures and it is a prime example of someone who speaks from an ethnocentric, monocultural mind-set. Even the New Testament was set in a specific time frame with Middle-Eastern Palestinian culture. As we try to truly understand the Scriptures and its applications, we need to interpret it from the Biblical cultural perspective of...