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From: msflora99@yahoo.com (flora macdonald)
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Subject: Re: What does everyone have against French society?
Date: 26 Jul 2003 09:59:49 -0700
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matthewoutland22@yahoo.com (MatthewOutland) wrote in message news:<52210046.0307252157.54a853f8@posting.google.com>...
> Politics aside, why do so many people view french society cynically or
> with contempt?  I've never been to France or met any French so I don't
> know whats so special here.   Just curious, that's all.


It happens everywhere. The Japanese have contempt for the Koreans, the
Germans for the Poles, the English for the Irish (Paddys), the
Australians for the English (Pommies). So in England the French are
"frogs". The bad habits always belong to the foreigner. Back when the
word "condom" was unmentionable in English it was a  "french letter",
in France it was "un chapeau anglais".

Flora