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by Valentina Dicu (Author), Oana Romanita Hanganu (Author)
Cultural awareness is the key ingredient of good communication. That is why understanding values, preferences and assumptions of the country where you live in is crucial for the process. "Cultural Awareness Guide For Expats Working in Romania" reveals the many facets of Romanian traditions, society, history, behavior and perceptions that would help expats integrate smoothly within the local working environment. "The Centre for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition defines culture as being a sum of the common behavior patterns and interactions, of cognitive constructions and of understanding, which are finally acquired through the socialization process, according to https: //www.livescience.com. Therefore, culture stands for the identity of an extended social group and is favored by its unique social patterns. It is also present within the collective subconscious of one group of people and gathers the value system upon which those people are guided. In every culture, there is a system of principles of what is desirable, and this determines the psychological profile of its members." "Half of Romanians can speak at least one foreign language, according to a Euro barometer survey 48% of Romanians can handle a conversation into a foreign language, other than their mother tongue. The top of their linguistics preferences is English followed by French and Italian. The verb that defines the Romanian people is "to have"."
