This 2nd edition of the Rencontres de la Mobilité Internationale confirms the success and knowledge of the first event (on 25 June 2008). The group has renewed Taitbout Novalis on 8 June 2009 the format of the previous year: conferences, roundtables and workshops on the theme of mobility have been carried out at a good pace. Participants did not see the time pass and have barely noticed the rain had poured all day on the Bois de Boulogne!
A big thank you to Arcanéo for logistics organization that has helped make this day so enjoyable. And the two hosts of the roundtables and conferences: Frédéric Ferrer, journalist and lecturer at ESCP-EAP, and Nicolas Lagrange, BFM journalist.

You will find in the following topics covered in each round table. Do not hesitate to extend the discussions! But first, make a detour to the two plenary sessions that framed the round tables.

Opening Plenary: Different views on the world, USA, China
Pascal Baudry, Professor and writer, specializing in American culture, author of “French and Americans, the other side.”
Lihua ZHENG, Professor of Sociolinguistics at the University of Foreign Studies, Director of the Center for Research on Intercultural.

Plenary closing with Erik Orsenna.

Very different, these two conferences are a sort of loop. The introduction has taught us to better manage relationships with the Chinese or the Americans (USA). The conclusion made us travel in the geopolitical sphere. We have moved from the sphere of the person to that of the planet …

Discover another culture is always destabilizing. What is natural in a culture is not in another. Often we are not aware of “invisible evidences” that have shaped since childhood our way of relating to the world and to others. Understand his own culture from outside, learning to communicate in accepting the differences is not easy and requires learning and openness. France is somewhere between the mode of communication very clear the United States, and the implicit mode of China. A structured relationship between the task, the applicable law and the contract (USA), and a structured relationship with the individual in the group, trust and the importance of “face” (China). Note: Lihua ZHENG co-authored a book very instructive and very pleasant “How the Chinese see the Europeans” (PUF) which we had already spoken in our “China.”

Understanding another culture and understand the world and its trends …

Érik Orsenna invited us in conclusion to a journey through time and space, while reminding us that “the trip you or you defeated.” On the occasion of the publication of his book ( “The future of water: small specific globalization” after “Voyage au pays du coton”), we set out its vision of a few major issues on the planet within a perspective of sustainable development: how to arbitrate between local issues and global issues? What horizon for governance: long term? short term? What public-private balance?
A strong idea in this speech conclusion: in a stable world, we can just be a specialist. But in a complex world, a general cross-cutting is essential to understand the challenges and complexity of the interactions.

International mobility is at the heart of this problem.

On 29 November, was released the new jewel or “toy” d? Apple I-phone, the latest generation of mobile phone from a value of 400 euros. Its functions include: fully touch screen, internet access on the big screen, many browsers, sending OF e-mails, and more? you can call with!
In fact, d’après ce que j? Know, it is already outdated and copied by other mobile telephony providers.
In any case, these phones “new generation” n? Have nothing to do with mobile phones of the beginning? Their features are more numerous and sophisticated.
Soon he would change phones every 2 months for the latest. I’m sure some do?

What about the boom in mobile phone?
Over 50% of the population owns one and could not do without. Some will tell you that cranky? Before we arrive to go mobile.
Indeed, where n? Existed, it was otherwise. This is the same with the car, l? Electricity, washing machine, etc.
It is undeniable that the phone makes great service. In case of failure of emergency, it is reassuring to know that? Can quickly contact the police or firefighters. For people who work, who are always on the road, it enables? Be available at all times so as not to miss d? Any new contracts. It also helps to forge a social bond, including SMS of a low cost (always less than l? Call), it allows young (or young at heart) to communicate between them. Sometimes, for the timid, the social phobic: it is a good way? sometimes only? qu? they have in their possession to communicate. It? Is perhaps not the best, but: it is at least here? The phone can also know where your child at any time provided that? It really tells you where it is of course!
THE future of mobile phones seems d? Also promising. In fact, will soon be on the market for mobile phones “diagnoses” that monitor your blood pressure, for example, and can alert your doctor if problems arise.

Of course, these advantages have their side of coin. Regarding SMS, d? First, it leads to disaster at l? Spelling. Copies are now filled with words “SMS”. Some do more than this language, which n? Bodes nothing good for the future.
D? Other hand, the fact? Be available almost 24 hours on 24, was undeniably a certain disadvantage. You can never be disconnected from your work. You end up becoming a slave to your cell phone. However, sometimes incessant tones can give the impression d’être important d’appear someone? A very busy, as a worker and seriously insatiable?
Some do live alone. We need their mobile phone is turned on continuously, where? They spend their time even to call n? Anyone, do matter when and n? Matter what time without worrying about s? They bother or not. They become, ultimately, disrespect for others. They don? Never extinguished their phone, whether in the classroom, in the cinema or restaurant? You never know, they might miss the call of their lives. While often they have an ordinary life.
Many do not know take a decision alone. I suppose you have already witnessed such scenes in a supermarket, a man who pushes a cart with his phone in? Ear about that? Must be taken: the Coquillet or spaghetti, diapers large or small size of the tuna? oil or tomato, etc.. ? short, fundamental questions which their lives depend on it!
In addition, the mobile phone can have harmful consequences: phone while driving causes many accidents each year. Studies have also shown that? It could cause brain tumors. D? Contradict other studies have shown the opposite. So who to believe? As we always say, when in doubt, it s better? Abstain. Thus, in the meantime? Study that found the truth, it is better to take the lead and restrict the usage of mobile phones.

Of course, not s? Use it would be absurd and unnecessary, because it still makes great services, but moderation seems appropriate.
This is like any d? Elsewhere! N become addicted? Is very good and never becomes negative? S use reasonable and rational.