April 2013
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November 2012
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August 2012
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The influence of French Culture in the UK, very...
The common past of England and France is characterized by rivalry and conflicts. A history teacher in my school in London tried to explain us the complexity of the current relations between these two countries. If it seems that there is always a competition between the two cultures there are not conflicts anymore like those during the XIXth...
June 2012
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Humour in advertising, the British way
Humour and sex are relevant components in Communication nowadays. they can be mixed or not, but generally the mix of both concepts is very successful. Here is a British example. The famous store Harvey Nichols lauched a few weeks ago this tricky advertising campaign, promoting the sales, and which shows men and women with the crotch wetted. The photograph goes with a very explicit...
May 2012
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“All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All...”
– David Cronenberg
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How stereotypes are used in Marketing ?
The project demanding in one of my courses in my international section was to imagine the design of the bottle of the next limited edition of the famous brand, in the case we would work for this famous company. We thought about the French touch, and the best way for transmiting a message to an international population is to used stereoptypes. Indeed everybody will understand the theme we...
April 2012
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French people : Self - Sufficient ?
Maybe I’m wrong, but I think French people are kind of self -sufficient with their own culture and their own “domestic” business. We have to confess, comparing to other European countries, we have very low languages abilities, which stay generally very scholar and basic. Yes Actually In France we DO speak French and only French. That is the French way of thinking and we have...
“L’anglais, ce n’est que du français mal prononcé.”
– Georges Clemenceau (1841-1929) ; Mémoires.
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Chronicle Of The Unknown News : UNTOUCHABLES,...
India is famous for its original and very traditional system of castes. But even though everyone, or the great majority, knows this is a reality, In my opinion anybody, excepting Indian people, can’t understand the full extent of this really particular social environment.
The fact that the lowest caste answers...
March 2012
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“Travel teaches tolerance”
– Disraeli Benjamin
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Living abroad : being able to acculturate one-self...
Nowadays the great majority of people goes abroad but why do we go in a foreign country ? Except for seeing wonderful landscapes, tasting exotic meals or for benefiting of an idyllic weather why do people travel?Is the attractiveness of discovering a new culture the main reason?
I don’t think so. Even if food as monuments are part of culture, can we say people pay attention to local...
