I Have Two Cows...

One of our French teachers decided to show us a page about some of the different type of governments it exists with and also how the different cultures affect the government. First of all, the article starts by saying that we are owners of 2 cows. From these 2 cows, the government is going to intervene in different ways depending on the type of government chosen. Some of the examples are a little bit exaggerated but you can see the funny side also, since is based on prejudices that people have by the actions this government made in the past or some of them still do. I can relate some of the material we learn in class in this blog post. For example, the blog post says that if you had 2 cows and live in a communist country, the state will take both of them and give you milk. As we saw in class, in a communist country, the state controls both resources and prices. It's cool to see their opinion of the other governments like, socialism, capitalism, etc., which by the way I also don't think there's one government that is better than another. Each country has the chance to success if they get focused on it, like for example China is now in the second place in the world's economy, just behind the U.S., and they have different government systems. This is the proof that there are different methods to be in the first place of the world's economy, not just one.

Besides talking about the different type of governments, the blog post also talks about the prejudices we have about how some countries manage their economy. The one that captured my attention was the French economy. I said that if you were a french person and you have two cows, you will declare a strike because what you really wanted was 3 cows. Recently, the teacher had showed us about a strike in the store "Carrefour", which make us laugh while we were reading this. Well, France was the country were the Human Rights were established, so I think its okay that they are claiming their rights. However, this has also created a bad image on France, as people make prejudices that they work only a few hours or if not they are in a strike. In a recent article that came on my French exam, says that France is fighting hard against this image that has been created around it. France invested around 10 millions of Euros in 3 years to create a campaign to show people the reality. I think is a very good idea of France to promote this campaigns so that more people gets motivated to work on there, or simply just to don't have the negative idea, just as we as Mexicans don't like to people think that Mexico = big sombrero moving on a burrito or taking a nap under a big sahuaro! Each country needs an opportunity to give the best of it.