Definitely high on assumptions mate. Fascinating stuff! And England itself has two official languages, which provided a fascinating range of questions for my research when I was over there. I asked a not-to-be-named national museum if they provided their interpretation in the two official languages of England, to which they said, there's only one. Um. Okay, read your legislation - there's two, since a 'recognised regional language' counts as an official language under the Act to which the Museum is bound. To which, as you might guess they rolled their eyes, cos everything that isn't them theirs - of course - a joke. Or something to be displayed. Fortunately that's not MOST museums in Britain or elsewhere for that matter... but I managed to do some eye-rolling of my own, as you can imagine.
Is it still hot there? Can you make it colder before I arrive?
I think London IS the most multicultural - I suppose in the way that I imagined the term as a young person anyway - really large city. In fact I think I'd defend that. There are places like Singapore that have strong multiple cultures, and New York that have a sense of that - though it feels much more about assimilation than London. I saw it in 1980 when I lived there, but since then it's exploded and it's lovely.
I guess the problem with these Writer's Block questions is that they are typically written by Americans, and while a lot of Americans (and I count most of my American friends in this) do have a sense of the world, there are a remarkable amount that simply don't have to, so - as with many of us, if you aren't forced to consider other cultures, maybe you don't. And the questions do end up sounding a bit like a sheltered 18 year old American who imagines the world as wonder. Which in some ways is lovely, and in other ways - well, a tad xenophobic, really.
It's definately cooler today and set to cool some more next week. I think you'll notice a lot of change in London since the early 80's. Have fun exploring! Did I say Brunswick Centre by Russel Sq the other day talking about food places? Patisserie Vallerie.
I'll give the setter the benefit of the doubt that they wanted to talk about expanding worldview.
Yay on the cooler!!! Oh no I was in London for two months last year with my work, so I have been there more recently ( and quite a few times over the years as well since 1980) sorry was just doing my saggy reminisce. Yes, I love th Brunsick Centre... I think I might have mentioned that I'm a huge fan of Brutalism and of course BC is a glorious example of that. Cannot wait... three weeks to go... keep those temps down for me!!!
Ah of course, I remember now! I'll see what I can do about the temperature, although Ive got a weekend off, 2nd weekend of september, so I'd quite like the sunshine then, so no promises ;)
And England itself has two official languages, which provided a fascinating range of questions for my research when I was over there. I asked a not-to-be-named national museum if they provided their interpretation in the two official languages of England, to which they said, there's only one. Um. Okay, read your legislation - there's two, since a 'recognised regional language' counts as an official language under the Act to which the Museum is bound. To which, as you might guess they rolled their eyes, cos everything that isn't them theirs - of course - a joke. Or something to be displayed. Fortunately that's not MOST museums in Britain or elsewhere for that matter... but I managed to do some eye-rolling of my own, as you can imagine.
Is it still hot there? Can you make it colder before I arrive?
I think London IS the most multicultural - I suppose in the way that I imagined the term as a young person anyway - really large city. In fact I think I'd defend that. There are places like Singapore that have strong multiple cultures, and New York that have a sense of that - though it feels much more about assimilation than London. I saw it in 1980 when I lived there, but since then it's exploded and it's lovely.
I guess the problem with these Writer's Block questions is that they are typically written by Americans, and while a lot of Americans (and I count most of my American friends in this) do have a sense of the world, there are a remarkable amount that simply don't have to, so - as with many of us, if you aren't forced to consider other cultures, maybe you don't. And the questions do end up sounding a bit like a sheltered 18 year old American who imagines the world as wonder. Which in some ways is lovely, and in other ways - well, a tad xenophobic, really.
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