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What's interesting is that what's happening on American campuses is exported to France, yet, what's happening on French campuses stays on French Campuses. I wo
by 908B64B197 6y ago
What's interesting is that what's happening on American campuses is exported to France, yet, what's happening on French campuses stays on French Campuses.
I wonder if it reflects current brain flow (are American students coming to French university in greater numbers than French students going to the US?).
Maybe the solution is to build an ecosystem where the culture and practices is exported instead of imported.
- cameldrv 6y agoFoucault definitely did not stay on French campuses, and he's a huge part of this new ideology.
- lm28469 6y ago> What's interesting is that what's happening on American campuses is exported to France, yet, what's happening on French campuses stays on French Campuses. I never thought of it that way. That being said after 50+ years of Americanisation of Western culture (through movies, music, &c.) it's not really surprising that it flows that way. I think a lot of the American "woke" culture also emerges from things that are very easy to empathise for and trigger an outrage response. For example the George Floyd case which somehow triggered dozens of protests in Europe: no one with a fully formed brain can watch the video and not be outraged. I also feel like a lot of the American ideas about progressivism are fairly "feel good" measures that are very easily adopted (everyone wants to be upset about something, everyone wants to be themselves/special, &c.) and are all somewhat based on "identity", it feeds the "us vs them" part of the brain very nicely.
- tomp 6y agoMore people in France can read English that people in US who can read French.