Talked to a pretty bourgeois Parisian today. After confirming that I was right to live in France — the best, safest, most protecting society on Earth, she called it — the woman from the humanist, rationalistic, cartisian, peaceful society (the one that never amalgamates and that is only against President Bush) said that she would never visit America.
"On devrait vraiment faire la guerre aux Américains", she added. "Ils méritent une balle dans la tête" (We Frenchmen really ought to make war on the Americans. They deserve a bullet in the head). I didn't stay around long…
Behind the Façades in France: What expats and the mainstream media (French and American alike) fail to notice (or fail to tell you) about French attitudes, principles, values, and official positions…
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