Submitted by paxgallodacica on July 15, 2005 - 2:30am.
Well I'd like to write a few words about the other subject in matter. Should the French know better geography than the average American, for which I prefer to rely on your experience as I sadly only know a few, those French only know few things about Geography.
They surely know where is a given country, but few of them really have a precise idea of the political and human factors that caracterise this country. In the end, I think that the notion of geography is linked to historical, cultural matters. And let's bet that neither the American nor the French do really know many things about it appart from specialists from each country.
As an example I'm quite sure that many of the French think that Hungary or Romania, as part of the former Eastern countries, are slavs. In fact, it would represent the same mistake as considering Italians and Germans the same way, with the same religion and similar langages.
So it would be an error to considerate that we, the French, are superior thanks to our knowledge of the world. We had better admitting that we are like all the others.
They surely know where is a given country, but few of them really have a precise idea of the political and human factors that caracterise this country. In the end, I think that the notion of geography is linked to historical, cultural matters. And let's bet that neither the American nor the French do really know many things about it appart from specialists from each country.
As an example I'm quite sure that many of the French think that Hungary or Romania, as part of the former Eastern countries, are slavs. In fact, it would represent the same mistake as considering Italians and Germans the same way, with the same religion and similar langages.
So it would be an error to considerate that we, the French, are superior thanks to our knowledge of the world. We had better admitting that we are like all the others.