Europe’s Image, Culture and Its Foreign Policy
Author: Mahir Namur
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mahir-namur
Source:
http://www.ifa.de/pub/kulturreport-fortschritt-europa/
This article is predating the printed version in the culture report of IFA-Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen.
Europe’s image is getting weaker. Twenty years ago Europe had a totally different image than today looking from Istanbul perspective, where I live. Europe was the most attractive “fairy tale” tourism destination. We were grown up with European culture; we had to read European literature and learn European art history in schools. Of course everyone in Turkey wanted to see Rome where Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar was stabbed, visit Vienna where Mozart has composed its greatest symphonies, se ...
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2011-05-06 23:11:16
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