Perception slants in intercultural contacts
13 July 2007
A thought about inter-cultural experiences (inspired by a comment on Superfrenchie, very interesting blog by a French living in the USA):
Part of the experience US people traveling to France is –first & foremost– the experience of someone coming from a small city (let’s say: Boise, Idaho) to a big city (let’s say: Paris, France).
Now my contention is we have a typical Laffitte’s Law at work here: many of the things that strike them as French are probably more ‘big city’;maybe they would have the same experiences in –say– New York, New York.
Hence the following diagram :
