How many national parliaments (the buildings) have you visited?
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How many national parliaments (the buildings) have you visited?
My hypothesis is that a significant mid-double-digit percentage of people have at least visited the one in their home country (often as part of a school trip) and the other options will all be single digit percentages.
I'm not gonne do the "boost for scientific accuracy" thing here.. but, uhm.. if you can boost this it'll be more accurate, in a scientistic way.
Mainly: tell us about your experiences!
@Pepijn I've been outside at least three (Swedish riksdag, UK houses of parliament and the EU parliament in Strasbourg), but never inside.
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How many national parliaments (the buildings) have you visited?
My hypothesis is that a significant mid-double-digit percentage of people have at least visited the one in their home country (often as part of a school trip) and the other options will all be single digit percentages.
I'm not gonne do the "boost for scientific accuracy" thing here.. but, uhm.. if you can boost this it'll be more accurate, in a scientistic way.
Mainly: tell us about your experiences!
@Pepijn
I'm not a collecting type of traveler, but I think I'll make the 5+. I have only taken a tour inside a parliament building twice (Bundestag Germany and Capitol USA). If it counts to only be standing in front of the building taking pictures of it I have at least three more (UK, Liechtenstein and my own country, Switzerland) -
How many national parliaments (the buildings) have you visited?
My hypothesis is that a significant mid-double-digit percentage of people have at least visited the one in their home country (often as part of a school trip) and the other options will all be single digit percentages.
I'm not gonne do the "boost for scientific accuracy" thing here.. but, uhm.. if you can boost this it'll be more accurate, in a scientistic way.
Mainly: tell us about your experiences!
@Pepijn
Fun fact: My country moved its parliament and I visited both locations… -
How many national parliaments (the buildings) have you visited?
My hypothesis is that a significant mid-double-digit percentage of people have at least visited the one in their home country (often as part of a school trip) and the other options will all be single digit percentages.
I'm not gonne do the "boost for scientific accuracy" thing here.. but, uhm.. if you can boost this it'll be more accurate, in a scientistic way.
Mainly: tell us about your experiences!
@Pepijn
Basically all of southeast Ontario is within a day-trip of Parliament Hill, so school trips to the capital are a pretty standard thing here. I went a few times with school, and almost but didn't quite participate in the Parliamentary Page Program, where local school kids work as parliamentary gophers.No other national or local/provincial/state legislatures, though. Haven't even been to the provincial legislature in Toronto, and never to any American government thing.
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@Pepijn I mean for Russia, the USA or Canada to visit the /national/ one may be a bit of a push. But if you allow for state/provincial/regional parliaments and such, it becomes a lot more common even there. — Violet
@helle @Pepijn The Canadian federal parliament is relatively easy; I was milling around outside when when a tour guide asked if we wanted to take a tour, and so we got to go in. That was before the construction started, to be fair.
But yeah, it's way more common in the US to visit state capitols, and you're way more likely to meet a legislator that way.
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How many national parliaments (the buildings) have you visited?
My hypothesis is that a significant mid-double-digit percentage of people have at least visited the one in their home country (often as part of a school trip) and the other options will all be single digit percentages.
I'm not gonne do the "boost for scientific accuracy" thing here.. but, uhm.. if you can boost this it'll be more accurate, in a scientistic way.
Mainly: tell us about your experiences!
@Pepijn I think you overestimate school trips in many countries. I've been on so few I could probably count them on one hand and we never left the county. There's just no money for such "fancy" trips in a lot of schools, at least in the UK.
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How many national parliaments (the buildings) have you visited?
My hypothesis is that a significant mid-double-digit percentage of people have at least visited the one in their home country (often as part of a school trip) and the other options will all be single digit percentages.
I'm not gonne do the "boost for scientific accuracy" thing here.. but, uhm.. if you can boost this it'll be more accurate, in a scientistic way.
Mainly: tell us about your experiences!
@Pepijn does Þingvellir in Iceland count?
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@Pepijn I think you overestimate school trips in many countries. I've been on so few I could probably count them on one hand and we never left the county. There's just no money for such "fancy" trips in a lot of schools, at least in the UK.
@kemra102 No I don't. That's why I specifically added the comment on how some countries actively subsidise this.
People in the comments pointed out how at least both the Scottish and Welsh parliaments offer subsidy
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How many national parliaments (the buildings) have you visited?
My hypothesis is that a significant mid-double-digit percentage of people have at least visited the one in their home country (often as part of a school trip) and the other options will all be single digit percentages.
I'm not gonne do the "boost for scientific accuracy" thing here.. but, uhm.. if you can boost this it'll be more accurate, in a scientistic way.
Mainly: tell us about your experiences!
@Pepijn Only one that I can think of (the US Capitol) and it's not even on my home continent never mind my home country. But I mean I'm European, it's possible I tripped over one at some point and forgot about it
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@Pepijn does Þingvellir in Iceland count?
@v_perjorative @Pepijn If it does, then Tynwald on the lsle of Man counts as well.
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@v_perjorative @Pepijn If it does, then Tynwald on the lsle of Man counts as well.
@v_perjorative @Pepijn I mean, it's definitely a thing...
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"isn't this just asking if people are rich and/or in a big country"
People replied the same thing on the poll asking whether they'd personally sat on a cow
As with the cows there's much more to it. There's lots of European countries with subsidised trips for schools to visit the legislature. And other, small countries, without that.
Also: Seriously. I'm not asking if you own a moon. The fast majority of us have the financial means to visit another city at least once in our life..
Reply to my own poll: 7 (assuming the Welsh Senedd* counts).
Fond memory: in 2005 I tagged along with senior-staff members of the NGO I was with, to visit someone in the Greek parliament. As we arrived there was a festive mood. We got cake. I still don't know if it was the birthday of the Greek state or some guy.
*I first visited a month before opening to help test audio systems in the main meeting space. Visited again on the day it opened. Very grateful for that, it's a beautiful symbol
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Reply to my own poll: 7 (assuming the Welsh Senedd* counts).
Fond memory: in 2005 I tagged along with senior-staff members of the NGO I was with, to visit someone in the Greek parliament. As we arrived there was a festive mood. We got cake. I still don't know if it was the birthday of the Greek state or some guy.
*I first visited a month before opening to help test audio systems in the main meeting space. Visited again on the day it opened. Very grateful for that, it's a beautiful symbol
@Pepijn Wait… If the Welsh Senedd counts then I should be able to count Canadian provincial legislatures, no? That would add 3 to my total, and put me at 7 as well.
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@Pepijn Wait… If the Welsh Senedd counts then I should be able to count Canadian provincial legislatures, no? That would add 3 to my total, and put me at 7 as well.
@fgraver Nope. Wales, England, Northern-Ireland and Scotland are "countries within a country"
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@fgraver Nope. Wales, England, Northern-Ireland and Scotland are "countries within a country"
@Pepijn You will certainly find some Canadians—especially Quebeckers—who would claim the same for their provinces.
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How many national parliaments (the buildings) have you visited?
My hypothesis is that a significant mid-double-digit percentage of people have at least visited the one in their home country (often as part of a school trip) and the other options will all be single digit percentages.
I'm not gonne do the "boost for scientific accuracy" thing here.. but, uhm.. if you can boost this it'll be more accurate, in a scientistic way.
Mainly: tell us about your experiences!
@Pepijn Oddly enough, I’ve never visited my own nation’s parliament (US Capitol building) but I have been to Scotland’s. Does the U.N. count? Been there…
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@Pepijn You will certainly find some Canadians—especially Quebeckers—who would claim the same for their provinces.
@fgraver Oh yes. Quebec has such an interesting special status. I think their rights are directly ingrained in the founding constitution or something?
But in the end Quebec is just a province in a federal system though. Wales etc are countries making up unitary state
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How many national parliaments (the buildings) have you visited?
My hypothesis is that a significant mid-double-digit percentage of people have at least visited the one in their home country (often as part of a school trip) and the other options will all be single digit percentages.
I'm not gonne do the "boost for scientific accuracy" thing here.. but, uhm.. if you can boost this it'll be more accurate, in a scientistic way.
Mainly: tell us about your experiences!
@Pepijn
One, but not in my home country
(well ok, I did live in the UK when I visited the houses of Parliament).
