Foreigners in a Country

One thing that has surprised me is in various countries the monuments and so forth to foreigners. Behind one of the main palaces near the Eiffel Tower in France, there is a large monument and statute to George Washington. I found this really bizzare (maybe because he faught and kicked the english out of America - I don´t know). Then there was another place ´Winston ChurchHill Boulevarde´ and lots of things like that.

Given Australian-US relations with our respective heads of state, I was joking thinking how long will it be before we have a street named ´George W. Avenue´ in Australia? Then it occurred to me this wouldn´t be beyond the realm of possibility so I guess the question is, which city will have the priviledge of this naming rights first?

In Vienna, they had been advertising an exhibition on JFK. A person from the hostel went to it yesterday and mentioned it had the full JFK vs Nixon presidental debate. This was something that I´ve wanted to see in its entireity as we´ve always had sound bites or someone elses summary of it.

I turned up and it was just some sound bites, which was annoying. But the exhibition itself was kinda interesting. It was more a life of JFK with the Vienna hook being that Austria was the neutral ground for talks between JFK and the soviets in the early 60s.

It was bizzare because it almost felt like a propaganda spin on JFK and I guess somewhat like Princess Diana, nobody ever wants to say a bad word about them (despite the fact Princess Diana was really nothing more than a spoilt brat but she sold magazines). It was interesting to see the video treatment of the assasination in Dallas. When it gets to the critical moment, the whole thing goes blurry (maybe so the youngsters don´t see it) which was curious.