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The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,475,835 ratings — published 2003
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,726,065 ratings — published 2007
Memoirs of a Geisha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,105,175 ratings — published 1997
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.34 — 618,298 ratings — published 2017
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.31 — 410,970 ratings — published 2013
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as cultures)
avg rating 3.74 — 411,224 ratings — published 1958
The Joy Luck Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as cultures)
avg rating 3.97 — 708,746 ratings — published 1989
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as cultures)
avg rating 3.84 — 502,205 ratings — published 2016
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.16 — 621,128 ratings — published 2012
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.09 — 387,048 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 — 358,629 ratings — published 2006
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.30 — 123,225 ratings — published 1991
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.49 — 801,613 ratings — published 2016
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.29 — 125,517 ratings — published 2017
The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.01 — 260,277 ratings — published 1931
The Red Tent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.21 — 630,424 ratings — published 1997
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as cultures)
avg rating 3.96 — 324,103 ratings — published 1997
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.23 — 592,206 ratings — published 2021
The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.33 — 29,684 ratings — published 2014
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.47 — 400,683 ratings — published 2016
Same, Same But Different (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.29 — 2,056 ratings — published 2011
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.27 — 229,709 ratings — published 2003
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.04 — 455,581 ratings — published 1997
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.34 — 182,501 ratings — published 2006
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as cultures)
avg rating 3.81 — 275,494 ratings — published 1998
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,168,869 ratings — published 1947
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.11 — 791,636 ratings — published 1998
Digging to America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as cultures)
avg rating 3.59 — 23,503 ratings — published 2006
Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.15 — 657,203 ratings — published 1996
The Island of Sea Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.32 — 166,294 ratings — published 2019
A Gentleman in Moscow (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.32 — 662,314 ratings — published 2016
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.05 — 463,652 ratings — published 2011
And the Mountains Echoed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.08 — 402,799 ratings — published 2012
Shanghai Girls (Shanghai Girls, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as cultures)
avg rating 3.92 — 162,465 ratings — published 2009
Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.18 — 205,953 ratings — published 1999
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.26 — 101,962 ratings — published 1970
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as cultures)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,748,708 ratings — published 2001
The Proudest Blue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.52 — 7,446 ratings — published 2019
Front Desk (Front Desk #1)
by (shelved 6 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.36 — 45,260 ratings — published 2018
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,844,835 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 — 116,530 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 — 3,855 ratings — published 2006
The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.01 — 137,202 ratings — published 2015
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,099,084 ratings — published 1967
The Buddha in the Attic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as cultures)
avg rating 3.70 — 63,837 ratings — published 2011
Island of the Blue Dolphins (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as cultures)
avg rating 3.88 — 349,267 ratings — published 1960
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,844,773 ratings — published 1960
The Complete Persepolis (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.40 — 204,486 ratings — published 2007
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,007,390 ratings — published 2009
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as cultures)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,357,911 ratings — published 1956
“The world is a community of cultures.”
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“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
