Dragon over London...

[Geoff]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboyminn at ...> wrote:

Steve: 
> Tower Bridge, the Palace, Big Ben, Tower of London, etc... are all iconic ... for people who live outside the bubble of their own little world. I've never traveled to London, but I would recognize those building. However, one must ask, how many 10 year old's would recognize them? But, I guess the same could be said for the London Eye. Still, I think the London Eye is the most iconic modern structure in London; Unique in the world. 

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> Keep in mind, I'm agreeing with you, people SHOULD recognize all those other iconic structures you mentioned, but what people should do, and what the can do are very different things. Far too many teenagers can't even find the USA on a globe. Sad but true. 

Geoff:
I think that you are looking at this from a North American perspective. The UK
is much, much smaller than Canada or the US and most 10 year old British 
children would be able to recognise Big Ben, Tower Bridge etc. because so 
many things happen in Central London which are on the TV news and on the 
childrens' news bulletins: only yesterday there was a big celebration marking 
one year to go to the 2012 Olympics which had events all across London and was 
given a lot of air time; Buckingham Palace and Westminster Abbey were on the 
news quite recently because of the Royal Wedding.

Chainging the subject, I looked at my OOTP copy and the broom ride along the 
river showed Tower Bridge, HMS Belfast, The Houses of Parliament and Big Ben 
among other places.