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Post by Jaga on Nov 8, 2014 23:57:55 GMT -7
very funny and short video. I hope you would be able to see and agree. It is also about Eastern Europe versus Western Europe etc....
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Post by karl on Nov 9, 2014 7:12:06 GMT -7
Jaga
A very comical impression in the first, but to use empathic understanding whilst viewing, is to understand our differences. A very good and effective learning tool of understanding regardless of level of education.
Karl
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Post by Jaga on Nov 9, 2014 13:36:15 GMT -7
Karl,
I am glad you liked it. I also liked the other video about Europe from German perspective. It gave me a pause to think! I can understand the world from other perspective a bit better now:
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Post by pieter on Nov 10, 2014 12:52:11 GMT -7
Jaga,
The first video was very comical with the stereotypes. Very well done! The video of how Germans see Europe is funny too. So we are their eternal football rivals, ha ha. Yesterday I was in The Hague at an exhibition of a Polish artist and I was surprised how in the same time the city was very quiet and less crowded than Amsterdam and Rotterdam and in the same time very Polish. (in the sense of a smaller Polish city or town, not like the large Polish cities) Ten thousands of Poles live there. I heard Polish in the train from Utrecht to The Hague (a Polish mother with her child. She went of at a train station in a subburb of Utrecht). Then I heard Polish in the Hague on the street and in the tram. I arrived at the exhibition in an area of the city I didn't knew. THe Dutch owners of the small wine shop the exhibition was in had bought and hung a Polish flag. Inside there was a mixed audience of Dutch, Polish and other nationalities, mixing to one pan European or world crowd. There was a professionalk Norwegian classical guitar player who studies at the conversatory at The Hague. His Norwegian girlfriend studies music in Copenhagen (Denmark). And then there was a Japanese or Chinese (or maybe Korean) friend of the Polish artist, who took images. There were also Polish friends, a young man and a girl who took photo's for documenting the exhibition. And there was a nice Polish woman, who was married with a Dutch man and has two daughters who are Dutch and understand Polish. She writes for a blog in Amsterdam and was interested in this Forum. I gave her the name of this Forum. She speaks several languages, and I hope that she maybe will enter this Forum or will read it.
It took me a while to reach the exhibition, because it looked like the Dutch railways and infrastructure (in an old fashionate British mood) had turned against me. Between Arnhem and Utrecht the rails were jammed or they were working on it, and after that when I wanted to travel from Utrecht to The Hague for the second time the rials were jammed or under construction and I had to take a bus again. If that was enough (I was late already), I found out that The Hague had changed considerably since I last had been there and I had to search a lot to find the location, by tram and walking. But it was worthwhile the adventure and meeting, Piotr Gardecki, de artist again (there is a thread dedicated to him on this Forum). It was nice to meet his girlfriend or wife from Wroclaw too. She is a very fine lady. He is a lucky man.
What I wanted to say is that we often look a certain way to the Central- and Eastern-Europeans, the Southern-Europeans, the Brits and Americans. But in reality we can get along despite the differences. Ofcourse we mock and sometimes hit eachother with cartoons, stereotypes, cliché's. But yesterday I saw a wonderful mix of Polish, Dutch, Scandinavian and Asian people who talked together, drank together and dined together, after the opening of the exhibiotion in the same place where the exhibition was. I drank for the first time in my life Polish wine, red wine. I dind't even knew that Polish wine existedd. The Polish guests were surprised by it too. It was the initiative of the Dutch wine sales duo of the store.
I will post somethin about Piotr and the exhibition in the Piotr thread.
Cheers, Pieter
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