I can find the different engineering cultures between British and French from both the video and the article. Both countries kept working day and night. As the article describes, French engineering pay more attention to the plan. They used to plan all the things before the beginning. British engineers are good at "sorting out the resulting chaos". When they meet problems, they can do their best to solve the problems. I think this is the strong power of engineering. The cooperation let us to admire the advantages of our rivals and make advancement.
Besides the cooperation and competition, the ultimate goal of engineering is make life better and safer.
Your response reminds me of how engineers now have to think globally and have open minds. No matter where engineers are from, they have to work together to make life better and easier for the population. If they were not able to be global engineers, the countries might not even have the tunnel that now connects the, together. Being able to work together also means accepting that Britain did not have a plan like France but they were still able to set aside differences. The opposite here ended up working for the best; Britain’s lack of plan almost worked as a backup plan in case France’s side of the tunnel had trouble. ENGL 106
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