And while cross-cultural awareness is certainly a legitimate goal, it can be achieved without doing the same type of writing and speaking exercise at the end of every section. One is left with the feeling that some of the activities were not completely thought out, a typical flaw of single-author textbooks. One such instance involves the American attitude toward making mistakes and lying. Such an extreme generalization, using the word never, has no place in cultural descriptions of a diverse society. Not all Americans think or act alike.
Price tends to overlook or ignore the contradictions in American society.
American society was and is diverse and should be represented as such. Because the cultural notes tend at times to be misleading and the format repetitious, I find it difficult to recommend this work. However, since there is little to offer ESL students in the area of fables, proverbs, legends, and myth apart from a few good dictionaries and individual chapters in textbooks, experienced instructors with time to create material and exercises of their own, may indeed use the book by sifting out the usable material. Eureka has potential, but it misses the mark. Please cite TESL-EJ appropriately.