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>Michael:
> > To be fair, if you're comparing boringness, you can't compare
> > Moscow to Tuebingen. You have to compare Moscow with Berlin
> > or Munich, and Tuebingen with a Russian provincial town.
> > There's always a huge within-country gulf between cultural
> > capitals and their backwaters.
>
>
>An excellent point. One lesson one learns from traveling is that he
>within-country differences are genreally greater than between-country
>ones.
>
>However, one difference between the US and W. Europe is that in the
>latter the tenor of the national culture is set in the center, whereas
>in the former - in the hinterland.
>
>Wojtek
Tuebingen's not a hick village. It's a major university town.
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