Caterina Perrone - Chile - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs and Culture

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Cover image: Mayan Blanket detail, Puerto Montt, ChileShutterstock

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About the Author

CATERINA PERRONE works in the media and information sectors across Europe and Latin America. She holds an M.A. in Translation Studies and Economics from the University of Mainz (Germany) and an M.Sc. in Globalization and Latin American Development from the Institute of the Studies of the Americas (University of London and London School of Economics). She lived in Chile for two years, where she worked both in the business and the nonprofit sectors, and spent months traveling to the most remote corners of the country.

The Culture Smart! series is continuing to expand. All Culture Smart! guides are available as e-books, and many as audio books.

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The publishers would like to thank CultureSmart!Consulting for its help in researching and developing the concept for this series.

CultureSmart!Consulting creates tailor-made seminars and consultancy programs to meet a wide range of corporate, public-sector, and individual needs. Whether delivering courses on multicultural team building in the USA, preparing Chinese engineers for a posting in Europe, training call-center staff in India, or raising the awareness of police forces to the needs of diverse ethnic communities, it provides essential, practical, and powerful skills worldwide to an increasingly international workforce.

For details, visit www.culturesmartconsulting.com

CultureSmart!Consulting and CultureSmart!guides have both contributed to and featured regularly in the weekly travel program Fast Track on BBC World TV.

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