If you do business internationally you know that cultural etiquette is at least as important as price, inventory, and other factors in business deals. Every culture has different beliefs, ideals, and ways of doing things. You need to be aware of them if you're going to work closely with people from that culture. Kwintessential Country Profiles is a site that's been around for years, and it has great advice about how to handle cultural differences. Just scroll down the page and click on a country, and you'll get an overview of that country, plus detailed information about etiquette topics involving meetings, forms of address, customs, greetings, gift giving, table manners, religion, dress, negotiating, business cards, and much more. There is also a page with useful phrases for some of the world's main languages.
11/Mar/2009