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Interesting. I always had the impression, the US citizens and french citizen where buddies. Because of the independence war and the statue and everything.
"One Frenchman told me the French practically gave us the statue of liberty. How do you like that?"
Interesting. I always had the impression, the US citizens and french citizen where buddies. Because of the independence war and the statue and everything.
> France is the country with the deepest, most sedimented reservoir of anti-American arguments. Its long genealogy has been well documented over the years, most recently by Philippe Roger, who argues that French anti- Americanism is older than the United States (Roger 2002).
https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/meunierces...
How do we, as a society, start accepting rational self-criticism again?
This whole thing is amazing. It still reads really well today, like there's no tone of racism and nothing seems inappropriate (which is a hard thing to achieve with time). I wish we had such a book currently on how arabs and the muslim world are different, but not so different than us. > We didn't come to Europe to save the French, either in 1917 or in 1944. We didn't come to Europe to do anyone any favors. We came t…
I'm guessing such a book exists in south korea at the moment? I've heard that there's a lot of tension between the US army and the locals. One soldier even raped some local girl back in 2011. The problem is that people in the army are not the most educated people, and thus they're not the best ambassadors when abroad.
This whole thing is amazing. It still reads really well today, like there's no tone of racism and nothing seems inappropriate (which is a hard thing to achieve with time). I wish we had such a book currently on how arabs and the muslim world are different, but not so different than us. > We didn't come to Europe to save the French, either in 1917 or in 1944. We didn't come to Europe to do anyone any favors. We came t…
The original is a delight to read. Sadly, I can't help but wonder how many would be "triggered" by the answers today. How do we, as a society, start accepting rational self-criticism again?
A good starting point would be to stop using the word "trigger" when someone reacts in a way you don't like to something you say.
Personally I interpret it as a way to diminish the other side position by suggesting they don't have control over their emotions regarding some subjects. Not a good start.
Interesting. I always had the impression, the US citizens and french citizen where buddies. Because of the independence war and the statue and everything.
Not sure if you are joking? > France is the country with the deepest, most sedimented reservoir of anti-American arguments. Its long genealogy has been well documented over the years, most recently by Philippe Roger, who argues that French anti- Americanism is older than the United States (Roger 2002). https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/meunierces...
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