Law of the Land Knowing Your Host Country Before Doing Business

Although 20th century advances in transportation and communications promise a smaller, more accessible world, we each perceive that world through our personal experiences and cultural development. Language is one of the most obvious and one of the most complicated defining features of a culture. Each of us belongs to many groups that function in ways similar to larger cultures. Not all cross-cultural experiences take place in other countries or between people who speak foreign languages or come from different racial backgrounds. …