Subject: Re: cultural boundaries<br/>
Date: Feb 28, 2003 @ 21:44<br/>
Author: Francisco &lt;xuax@netvisao.pt&gt; (&quot;Francisco &lt;xuax@...&gt;&quot; &lt;xuax@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1053351936">&quot;jparsell&quot; &lt;jparsell@n...&gt; wrote:<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; The cultural tri-points ought to be interesting spots.<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>Yes, indeed. But a cultural tri-point (or a cultural boundary) is <br/>
rarely a point (or a line). It is, most often than not, a transition <br/>
area, neither A nor B nor C. Or at least there are several features <br/>
from every side at the same time.<br/>
Perhaps Switzerland is a good European example of a tri-cultural <br/>
area: German, French and Italian (or four if we add the very small <br/>
minority of the Rumantsche). The three cultures meet in Switzerland, <br/>
there are cantons of a well defined culture/language, but there are <br/>
also cantons were they mix, and the whole Switzerland itself is a <br/>
big mixture of those three cultures.<br/>
This is just a case. Europe has lots of them. Maybe it&#39;s good to <br/>
remember our non-European friends that Europe is continent with many <br/>
very different cultures and countries. It is not an almost uniform <br/>
entity like the USA.<br/>
<br/>
Francisco,<br/>
Portugal</div>