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where I Know About France Culture,and Othere Countries Culture?

Answer:resubmit this question please have no idea what you are asking for? If you want to know about specificic countries and their cultures check online encyclopedias like www.wikipedia.org

What Is The France Culture Like, Especially In Paris?

Answer:Contrarily to popular belief, it is pretty fast-paced. Most people like in any big city, spend their time commuting, work and then home whichh makes the people less agreeeable in general than in the rest of France. Apart from that, folks like to take their time and realx when necessary; have a nice lunch and a good talk. Not gumble up food and leave ! People enjoy the arts a lot and the shopping is great. Parisians don't really go and see the old monuments.....that is for tourists ! But they enjoy exhibitions and restaurants a lot. Life is totally different. Parisians are pround of their capital. After all it has been the no 1 destination for so many years in the world. Avoid politics and good manners will take you far . Say please and thank you. Yelling is considered rude. Dressing appropriately is a biggie. Shorts for women during the summer always make people smile. Women take a lot more care of themselves (and forget that ignorant idea of not shaving !) as well as men. People like to debate a lot. Talking just for the sake of talking is boring. And one great thing is people watching...and enjoying your surroundings and all the marvelous places in Paris. Trying to speak a bit of French will be considered nice and strangers will help you immediately. And no......people will not engage you about the War in Iraq nor assault you for being American. That is totally felse. Speaking loud is considered bad manners too. It is a cosmopolitan city, so be prepared to meet all kinds of nationalities. A warning though : pickpockets ! They are crafty !

Is There Any American Radio That Specializes In Culture, Arts, And Literature?

I always listen to NPR and I like it much. However, I am fed up of politics. NPR talks about everything but it emphasizes politics. I listen to France Culture but I would like to listen an American cultural radio. Thank you for responding!

Answer:sadly no- NPR used to be more like that but after 9-11 it all changed to a more political shows I wish the usa had something like the BBC's Radio 4 ( and Radio 7) but alas that kind of programing would not bring in the money

France Culture Questions?

by law, french workers get... of paid vacation. a. one week b. two weeks c. five weeks french families often go visit their grandparents on... a. saturday mornings. b. saturday evenings c. sundays on friday evenings, thousands of people gathere to ride across paris on.. a. skateboards b. in-line skates c.bicycles during the school week, french teenagers on the average watch TV for... a. less than one and a half hours a day. b. about two and a half hours a day. c. more than three hours a day before watching TV, most french teenagers... a. do their homework. b. work on an outside job. c. babysit for their brotheres and sisters when listening to music, french teenagers genorally prefer... a. rock and rap b. folksongs c. classsical music the french fete de la musique takes place in... a. january b. june c. november the touareg are a nomadic people who live in... a. the sahara b. southeast asia c. egypt france has a million immigrants who have come from tunisia. This country is located in... a. western africa b. northeren africa c. the middle east please help!

Answer:1) French workers get mandated 2 1/2 days paid vacation per month ( = 30 days per year), thereefore at least 5 weeks of paid vacation per year (http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/emire/FRANCE/ANNUALHOLIDAY-FR.htm ) 2) Sundays are usually when grandparents visitation take place 3) Paris is famous for Pari Roller on Friday evenings so the answer is inline-skating (http://www.pari-roller.com/ ) 4) TV is really not a big fixture and many household I know don't even own a television set. Therefore most accurate answer would be 1 1/2 hours. (The national average for general population in France a few years back - 2005 - was 2 1/2 hours per day. www .literacytrust.org.uk/database/TV.html ) 5) Do their homework of course. French teenagers in general do not have part time job. 6) Teenagers listen more to rock and rap. 7) Fete de la Musique is an annual summer festival that takes place on 21 June (http://fetedelamusique.culture.fr/ ) 8) Touareg are Saharan nomads (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuareg ) 9) Tunisia is located in North Africa (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunisia )

Something About France Culture? Eg: Baguette?

I need some french things like the Eiffel Tower, Berets, baguette, ....etc

Answer:stuck up people

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For the Soul of France: Culture Wars in the Age of Dreyfus
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Frederick Brown, cultural historian, author of acclaimed biographies of Émile Zola (“Magnificent”—The New Yorker) and Flaubert (“Splendid . . . Intellectually nuanced, exquisitely written”—The New Republic) now gives us an ambitious, far-reaching book—a perfect joining of subject and writer: a portrait of fin-de-siècle France.

He writes about the forces that led up to the twilight years of the nineteenth century when France, defeated by Prussia in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71, was forced to cede the border states of Alsace and Lorraine, and of the resulting civil war, waged without restraint, that toppled Napoléon III, crushed the Paris Commune, and provoked a dangerous nationalism that gripped the Republic.

The author describes how postwar France, a nation splintered in the face of humiliation by the foreigner—Prussia—dissolved into two cultural factions: moderates, proponents of a secular state (“Clericalism, there is the enemy!”), and reactionaries, who saw their ideal nation—militant, Catholic, royalist—embodied by Joan of Arc, with their message, that France had suffered its defeat in 1871 for having betrayed its true faith. A bitter debate took hold of the heart and soul of the country, framed by the vision of “science” and “technological advancement” versus “supernatural intervention.”

Brown shows us how Paris’s most iconic monuments that rose up during those years bear witness to the passionate decades-long quarrel. At one end of Paris was Gustave Eiffel’s tower, built in iron and more than a thousand feet tall, the beacon of a forward-looking nation; at Paris’ other end, at the highest point in the city, the basilica of the Sacré-Coeur, atonement for the country’s sins and moral laxity whose punishment was France’s defeat in the war . . .

Brown makes clear that the Dreyfus Affair—the cannonade of the 1890s—can only be understood in light of these converging forces. “The Affair” shaped the character of public debate and informed private life. At stake was the fate of a Republic born during the Franco-Prussian War and reared against bitter opposition.

The losses that abounded during this time—the financial loss suffered by thousands in the crash of the Union Génerale, a bank founded in 1875 to promote Catholic interests with Catholic capital outside the Rothschilds’ sphere of influence, along with the failure of the Panama Canal Company—spurred the partisan press, which blamed both disasters on Jewry.

The author writes how the roiling conflicts that began thirty years before Dreyfus did not end with his exoneration in 1900. Instead they became the festering point that led to France’s surrender to Hitler’s armies in 1940, when the Third Republic fell and the Vichy government replaced it, with Marshal Pétain heralded as the latest incarnation of Joan of Arc, France’s savior . . .

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In Lyon, France, we visit 10-year-old Emilien. His father, a laboratory technician, tests washing machines, and his mother is a professional musician. Viewers see Emilien and his two sisters at both their mother’s and father’s apartments, at school, playing basketball, swimming, and accompanying their father to his Aikido lesson. Amazingly, there’s still time for a fun sing-along with their cousins. In Beaujolais, meet 9-year-old Camille, whose family runs a vineyard and winery. We see the sumptuous school meal prepared by a nearby restaurant, hear students recite Moliere, visit the vineyards and a local bakery, accompany Camille to her riding lesson, and join the family celebration of Three Kings Day.

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