London: culture capital of Europe

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NYC: cultural capital of the world

I'd tend to agree with Emiliano, but then both London and New York City are said to be World or Global Cities or Alpha++ Cities ... even Planet cities.

What [MENTION=21405]meridannight[/MENTION] said could be true about Paris, but [MENTION=20933]LJay[/MENTION] says we have a reputation for not dealing with foreigner well? I don't think you'd find many French people these days who hadn't studied at least some English for a few years. Therefore we are (although badly rated in the foreign language skills chart) probably better at speaking English than your average Brit or American would be at a foreign language. (Now I know French has a reputation of being quite difficult to learn, which I understand). Moreover, I have to remember that probably more Americans than we know are at least bilingual, since there are so many recent immigrants from other countries living there. Brits, however, could do with being more European or worldwise and make language learning compulsory in their schools, which it only is to a very minimal level, as a compulsory subject. How many people on this planet speak Chinese?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_city
Classification of the cities in order of economic importance here :
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/world2012t.html