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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues

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To: C.K. Houston who wrote (429)11/13/1997 3:17:00 PM
From: John Mansfield  Read Replies (1) of 9818
 
Situation in Europe - a reason why are we lagging in awareness

In German enterprise culture it is still very difficult for employees
to really say to leaders (e.g. CEO etc) that they are completely wrong
(especially among the older people). And most high level people do not really understand english very good (you have to understand: in a german bookshop you only see german books; some english tucked in a corner); on TV all is in German (syncr of english stuff). Same goes for France. :-(((

In smaller countries (Netherlands, Belgium, Switserland, Scandinavian countries), this is totally different. All english is subtitled (e.g. CNN); almost only english books on informatics, business etc.

The more I think about it, the more I see that the current difference in
awareness (english speaking vs. non-english speaking) is PRIMARILY A LANGUAGE PROBLEM. (and: in france they used to have the 'minitel'; this a predecessor of internet - but all in french of course). So france is still much behind in internet access; one of the primary ways for raising awareness.

Any thoughts?

John
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