Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: cultural boundaries
Date: Mar 01, 2003 @ 04:59
Author: Brendan (Brendan <pit.hokie@verizon.net>)
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"jparsell" <jparsell@n...> wrote:
> The cultural tri-points ought to be interesting spots.
Yes, indeed. But a cultural tri-point (or a cultural boundary) is
rarely a point (or a line). It is, most often than not, a transition
area, neither A nor B nor C. Or at least there are several features
from every side at the same time.
Perhaps Switzerland is a good European example of a tri-cultural
area: German, French and Italian (or four if we add the very small
minority of the Rumantsche). The three cultures meet in Switzerland,
there are cantons of a well defined culture/language, but there are
also cantons were they mix, and the whole Switzerland itself is a
big mixture of those three cultures.
This is just a case. Europe has lots of them. Maybe it's good to
remember our non-European friends that Europe is continent with many
very different cultures and countries. It is not an almost uniform
entity like the USA.
Francisco,
Portugal
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