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The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,625,290 ratings — published 2003
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,830,130 ratings — published 2007
Memoirs of a Geisha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,149,519 ratings — published 1997
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.34 — 702,198 ratings — published 2017
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.31 — 428,052 ratings — published 2013
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as cultures)
avg rating 3.75 — 428,194 ratings — published 1958
The Joy Luck Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as cultures)
avg rating 3.97 — 719,807 ratings — published 1989
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.16 — 641,552 ratings — published 2012
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.48 — 853,907 ratings — published 2016
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.46 — 431,857 ratings — published 2016
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as cultures)
avg rating 3.83 — 516,474 ratings — published 2016
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.09 — 393,758 ratings — published 2005
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as cultures)
avg rating 3.66 — 359,640 ratings — published 2006
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.31 — 129,902 ratings — published 1991
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.29 — 135,363 ratings — published 2017
The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.01 — 265,794 ratings — published 1931
The Red Tent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.21 — 645,287 ratings — published 1997
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as cultures)
avg rating 3.96 — 344,167 ratings — published 1997
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as cultures)
avg rating 3.81 — 280,357 ratings — published 1998
Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.16 — 671,068 ratings — published 1996
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.22 — 652,598 ratings — published 2021
The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.32 — 32,821 ratings — published 2014
The Island of Sea Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.33 — 188,856 ratings — published 2019
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.28 — 242,757 ratings — published 2003
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.04 — 475,010 ratings — published 1997
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.34 — 193,838 ratings — published 2006
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,347,556 ratings — published 1947
Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.18 — 212,236 ratings — published 1999
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.12 — 816,149 ratings — published 1998
Digging to America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as cultures)
avg rating 3.60 — 24,015 ratings — published 2006
A Gentleman in Moscow (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.31 — 712,986 ratings — published 2016
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.06 — 520,258 ratings — published 2011
And the Mountains Echoed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.08 — 418,783 ratings — published 2012
The Buddha in the Attic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as cultures)
avg rating 3.71 — 66,290 ratings — published 2011
Same, Same But Different (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.29 — 2,074 ratings — published 2011
The Complete Persepolis (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.41 — 218,483 ratings — published 2007
Shanghai Girls (Shanghai Girls, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as cultures)
avg rating 3.92 — 166,038 ratings — published 2009
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,408,629 ratings — published 2012
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.26 — 106,840 ratings — published 1970
The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector's Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.43 — 106,119 ratings — published 2014
The Proudest Blue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.52 — 7,682 ratings — published 2019
Front Desk (Front Desk #1)
by (shelved 6 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.35 — 48,074 ratings — published 2018
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,989,381 ratings — published 2018
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as cultures)
avg rating 3.98 — 119,661 ratings — published 2012
The Culture Code: An Ingenious Way to Understand Why People Around the World Live and Buy as They Do (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as cultures)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,904 ratings — published 2006
The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.00 — 145,445 ratings — published 2015
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,158,161 ratings — published 1967
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as cultures)
avg rating 3.98 — 777,834 ratings — published 1987
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.05 — 289,435 ratings — published 2007
Island of the Blue Dolphins (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as cultures)
avg rating 3.88 — 355,856 ratings — published 1960
“Once the supervirus controls a certain number of nodes within a culture, it begins to systematically erase that culture's core, including its inherent values and objectives, maintaining only cosmetic features (consider attributes like accents, dress, superficial holidays … nothing representing deep underlying beliefs). . . . The supervirus has already gutted a few of the more progressively minded cultivars to a point at which they are now functionally the same culture wearing different skins … and it won’t stop there, having wrapped its tendrils deep within many more traditional belief systems. In erasing the genuine differences in how these cultures historically saw the world—the “offensive” bits—the supervirus robs us of these cultivars’ rich cultural histories and unique approaches to problems. It achieves equality by shaving off beliefs, objectives, and traditions that may produce genuine conflict among its vassals. The last thing our society needs is a monoculture wearing a skin mask of its victims. ”
― The Pragmatist's Guide to Governance: From high school cliques to boards, family offices, and nations: A guide to optimizing governance models
― The Pragmatist's Guide to Governance: From high school cliques to boards, family offices, and nations: A guide to optimizing governance models
“Try foods from other cultures too. Food gets you closer into knowing other people.”
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