Why do Americans just group all of Europe together
Why do you keep saying 'we're going to Europe' when there's such a big difference between Paris and Dunblane lol
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
A good question. Sometimes the announcement is of an international tour, and most Americans seem to have insufficient money and holiday time to visit; but even when talking of one nation or culture it comes up so often that it can't be just a few ignorami.
Nor is it a matter of not taking foreign holidays. I have visited France and Eire (nearest neighbours to Britain's nearest neighbours, and some French coastal towns are within day-trip range of Southern England), also Norway several times; so I know their languages and cultures differ considerably.
Yet I also know that is so of the far many more countries I have [i]not[/i] visited.
So are there other reasons?
Little or no teaching of overseas geography, history and languages (except perhaps S. American Spanish) at school?
Little and poor News and other reporting of overseas nations' lives and current affairs and other events?
Isolationism encouraged by being one continent-wide country between two enormous oceans - yet also other countries to the North and South?
Nor is it a matter of not taking foreign holidays. I have visited France and Eire (nearest neighbours to Britain's nearest neighbours, and some French coastal towns are within day-trip range of Southern England), also Norway several times; so I know their languages and cultures differ considerably.
Yet I also know that is so of the far many more countries I have [i]not[/i] visited.
So are there other reasons?
Little or no teaching of overseas geography, history and languages (except perhaps S. American Spanish) at school?
Little and poor News and other reporting of overseas nations' lives and current affairs and other events?
Isolationism encouraged by being one continent-wide country between two enormous oceans - yet also other countries to the North and South?
