Reader Response 11

 

Respond to the film, Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis, screened in class.  How does this film inform your understanding of French culture? Does it change your opinion of French culture? Do you see any similarities between French culture as depicted in the film and your own?

Reader Response 10

 

Assignment: In Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong, read the chapters assigned below. Write a response, following the Reader Response Guidelines (above). React to and comment upon at least two of your classmates responses.

Chapter 11: “Since local powers are seen as a threat to France’s unity, the French government systematically strips local communities of their political liberties” (146).  Why? How does this statement fit in with what you have learned in previous chapters? Compare and contrast this model with your knowledge of the US.