@izzythepush,
izzythepush wrote:
The only point you seem to want to make is that we should pay more attention to France, which isn't going to happen. Most of us are rather ambivalent about France, and that's not likely to change.
Don't include me in that ambivalence. Based on my high school history class, France was the cause of WWII, due to the desire to collect every penny of reparations from Germany for WWI. I think that without that miserly, or perhaps vindictive nature, Germany would have not had its run-away inflaction, and the masses would not have been willing to follow radical solutions.
And today, I can always tell who are the French tourists in NYC, based on the sweater draped over a male's shoulders, knotted in front (around the neck), and the male usually talking up a storm (in French) to some female(s), that appears to me he wants the world to see what a bon vivant he is. In my opinion, an exhibitionist effete prick. Plus, this drama usually is conducted in a manner so that the male takes up the most room on a subway or bus, with one arm draped over the adjoining seat. I just find them invariably so intrusive.
Plus, based on national culture, the willingness for French women to tolerate the extra marital dalliances of their husbands is just so non-American, or even non-British. This tells me that many French women might just believe the lie that their men need a periodic infusion of "strange." What a crock. Also, look at whose women are more accomplished. That tells me whose culture has more survival ability.
