Talk:Sister city
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(From a chamber of commerce article on Twin Towns; rewrite and/or paraphrase)
Local Government: Promotes democratic local government world wide.
Transnational projects and exchanges: Assists professional development by widening experience. Gives the opportunity to reflect on current practice and gain new ideas and expertise through exchange of experience and joint working.
Educational activities and exchange of young people: Promotes young people as confident global citizens who can fit in anywhere in the world, and who have the skills to work with people from different parts of the world. Gives direct contact with another culture. Provides real life context for foreign language learning. Promotes friendship across national boundaries. Develops greater awareness and objectivity about your own culture. Leads to increased self confidence. Promotes greater understanding and tolerance. Increases confidence and motivation to travel to other countries. Provides a focus for teaching in languages and other curriculum areas.
Isn't the term "twin towns" or "twin cities" often used for two similarly-sized cities seperated by some natural or artificial border (like a state boundary or river) that are sufficiently close together to be considered one community? --Robert Merkel
Yep, that's Twin Cities from which this article originated.
I believe Twin Towns is the more common international usage - Sister Cities is the US name for it. --justfred
Twin towns is a European initiative and is separate from this - hence new article Twin towns btljs
- On the other hand, asserting that it is a purely European term belies the world-wide nature of the scheme - there are now European towns which have twins all over the world. Perhaps a better comparison of the two terms should be made somewhere, and possibly the list of twinnings (currently at Twin towns, but may be split off to List of twin towns shortly) should include sister cities as well, since they seem a very similar concept - in which case, maybe it should be at List of twin towns and sister cities? Or are there sufficient differences in concept to warrant development of a separate List of sister cities? - IMSoP 17:34, 25 Mar 2004 (UTC) (see also proposal at Talk:Twin towns#Refactoring this and related pages)
Merged
Just a quick note to say that I have now merged this page with Town twinning, which is the information bit of what used to be Twin towns (the list part is now List of twin towns and sister cities). See Talk:Town twinning for a more complete (or possibly just more confusing) explanation of what I did. - IMSoP 21:58, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)