While in France, we were stuck (of course) with French TV. This is not so bad: they have game shows, and variety shows, and talk shows, and comedies, and dramas.
Since neither my nor Partner’s French is completely fluent, however, we pretty much stuck to CNN.
The news was – odd. They do a strange mélange overseas: American stories (GIANT EYEBALL FOUND ON FLORIDA BEACH!) to global-interest stories (the saxophone industry in Taiwan, for example).
(I’m not kidding. They did a story on the saxophone industry in Taiwan. We saw it at least six times, on six different days.)
All this is fine. But what really captured my attention were the commercials.
No more commercials for The Scooter Store or the Jitterbug! These were commercials for countries.
For example: every ten minutes (it seemed), CNN / France showed an edited version of this video, which portrays “the unforgettable energy of freedom” in the nation of Georgia. Behold!:
(I like the music, and the dancing. I was not, however, aware that there were Georgian Ninjas.)
Speaking of former USSR republics, here’s Azerbaijan:
Lots of factories and oil wells and fast cars, and a decent-looking restaurant. Okay! I will definitely build my saccharin factory there!
Many other countries were represented. There was a Taiwanese ad with a nice-looking man doing Chinese calligraphy with a mop. There was Kazakhstan (not so memorable). There was Morocco (all factories and factory workers, but with a nice Moroccan-music background). There was Montenegro (part tourism, part business).
But I will leave you with my very favorite, for eastern Poland.
And I ask you: why haven’t you invested in eastern Poland?
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