This is probably one of the most ambivalent posts in this collection, and there are many of those, since simple choices/perspectives are not as interesting. It will also be a topic that is a bit difficult at least for Americans to get their minds around.
Imagine you own a vehicle. If someone asks you what type of vehicle it is, you say “1967 Pontiac GTO”. Then you drive it to a country where people that see it from the right side call it a “1967 Pontiac GTO Right Side” and those who see it from the left call it a “1967 Pontiac GTO Left Side”. You can’t figure out why people would call what is essentially the same vehicle two different names. More so, the people in that country insist there are significant differences, even extending to their understanding they are two different vehicles! There may be better analogies but that’s my attempt to draw a parallel between how Americans view engineering career paths, and how some European countries (including Iceland, that I am more familiar with), view them.
Any pretext to show a GTO (Photo: Flickr)
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