After Camilo identified the issue he wants to do his research, which is basically to state if people in France react the same way to authority as people in the United States of America. It is normal and important for him to know what kind of research question he'll develop.
The kind of research question is the comparative question. Which is the kind its purpose is to find and identify differences between two or more group of things based on some variables. Said in other words, the idea of this kind of questions is to contrast a group of things in order to get some useful information.