Cultural Differences In Political And Cultural Similarities Between France And Germany

“Culture encompasses the behavior patterns, beliefs, and all other products of a particular group of people that are passed on from generation to generation” (Santrock).

Food is a very important in France. They don’t eat fast food as much as Americans. After meals they tend to talk and linger while Americans do that mostly before they finish eating. It is said that in France they eat like kings, lords, and then servants for dinner. While in America our bigger meals are often at dinner. Dessert is really common while in America for example, I rarely eat dessert more than once a week. French drink wine often, but not to get intoxicated. They normally drink it with their meals and the purchasing of alcohol age is 18. This is different from America where consumption and purchasing power is age 21. My perspective is France sounds like it has better

In this paper I am going to concentrate on comparing and contrasting how America and France’s economic and political policies choices combined with their cultural and historic backgrounds helped their current place on the word stage. It is undoubted that the United States and France are two of the strongest and most competitive countries in the world. Although they have almost the same economic system and same concept, they still have very different current situations which are closely bound up with their historic backgrounds and political choices. Through this paper I am going to discuss this topic through several sections.

Germany and wisconsin are very similar. The land and animals are very much so the same. This state and county fall on the same longitude line. Our overall climate and types of weather are the same.This is one reason for why so many Germans came to Wisconsin, when they came over seas from germany in the 1880’s up to even today.

There are many cultural differences between the United States and France. Some of these are simply social and others are cultural. Hofstede’s Value Dimensions can be used to highlight the differences between the cultures. Individualism vs collectivism, uncertainty avoidance, masculinity/femininity, power distance, and long-term vs short-term orientation are all characteristics that differ between France and the United States.

The United States and France though very far away from each other have a lot income with they way they were started. The United states was not always the great nation it is now. Infact they were under the rule of the British until the American Revolution. Shortly after the American Revolution the people of France became inspired. The people of France got rid of the monarchy and killed the royal family then created the national assembly.Even though these two countries begin so different the belief that it is a right to have life and liberty made them very similar.

Classes in Germany and in the United States compare in lots of different ways. Both education systems have similar classes such as: French,

The UK is divided into parliamentary constituencies of broadly equal population (decided by the Boundaries Commission), each of which elects a Member of Parliament to the House of Commons. The leader of the party with the largest number of MPs is invited by the monarch to form a government, and becomes the Prime Minister. The leader of the second largest party becomes the Leader of the Opposition.

President John Adams had sent several delegates, one of them being John Martial, to France to help sort out the issues between France and the US, such as the United States not honoring the Franco-American Treaty, formed back during the American Revolution, when France had its revolution, by meeting with minister Talleyrand of France. Three of Talleyrand’s men met with the delegates and told them Talleyrand refused to meet unless a large amount of money was payed. The delegates returned home and informed President Adams, who was outraged. The name of the Affair comes from the substituting of the three French men’s’ names with X, Y, and Z in a Congress report.

Wilhelm II: Russia was the sworn enemy of Germany since its forsake. After the Germany was unified by Bismarck at 1870s, it became a monarchy state ruled by emperors like me. Bismarck planed to build a stable alliance in order to counteract the hostile from France and Britain. So that, he decided to form an alliance with Russia , Austro-Hungarian empire and Italy. By a series of treaties, this system finally took shape. But, at 1892, Russia betrayed Germany and form alliance with

as an independent nation…” (Untied States History and Geography 62) this marked the end of the war in 1763. French power was eliminated in North America. Thus, the relationship between the British and French was at adverse.

During the Mid- to Late-19th century German people were beginning to call for a nation state. Two opposing parties –the Junkers or Conservatives and the Liberals fought for power in what would become the country of Germany. The Liberals who represented business interest and nationalist sentiment consisting of mainly Protestant ordinary citizens called for a representative government with a constitution, while the Prussian Junkers consisting of mainly aristocratic landowners and religious-minded middle classes supported the monarchy, agrarian farmers, and military tradition. The Liberals soon dominated Germany; however they ignored certain religious liberties of Catholics and Jews when voting for the German constitution in 1871.

In Europe, the main three countries Britain, France, and Spain were constantly battling for power. For many years the countries were involved in wars. These wars often took Britain’s attention off the colonies and left the colonies to govern themselves. By 1750, France held more territory in North America than Britain.

Some cultural traits that have defined French society and culture since the 16th century are the French music, and art. Both of these play a huge part of the French culture and is part of the main reason why France is known for everything that they do. Many people would ask, “How did France start all of these cultural traits?” A lot of people would also ask “Are there more traits that France has?” I will be talking about in order of what these cultural traits are, why they are important, the influence that these cultural traits had on the French natives and even tourists, and what I think of the French cultural traits.

The French are all about preserving their culture and being individualized. They often take great pride in the French products and the French style, and believe in keeping the French culture “pure” so they also limit the amount of foreign goods that are being imported. But during the World Wars the French began to allow foreigners to immigrate into France to take jobs due to an increase in job shortages. The immigration from the World Wars added to the diversity of the French culture. Ever since the 1850’s there has been a steady flow of immigration into France, and now nine percent of the French population is made up of immigrants (Gofen 62). The break down of the cultures in France is eighty-five percent of the French population is Roman