Ma Cherie said:Okay, here is something I found out while being a student. My foriegn friends tell me that in their country, it's not okay to disagree with the professor. But here, it's okay. It's even okay to argue.
I don't find that many people argue with our lecturers here. But thats either because they know that the lecutrers know much more than them, or we are all sleeping through the lecture. (of course we point out mistakes though)
Although, jsut a while back in our lecutres on Franco, we had one Spanish guy who was arguing in favour of the (spanish) military taking over (modern day) Spain from the government in order to prevent Basque and Catalan seperatism. Or at least agued that the general who did say that and was forced to resign was right. He did back down pretty quick, though.
I should probably say something about America too. Although I've never been so I can't really say, the impression that I get over here is that it is filled with religious extremists.