[WikiEN-l] Re: Re: [[Anti-French sentiment in the United States]]

[Dan Drake]

On Tue, 25 May 2004 03:20:45 UTC, Ray Saintonge 
<saintonge at telus.net> wrote:

>...
> I was tempted to jump in.  The article is a better criticism of the 
> Americans than of the French. :-)

So it is.  (Though the definite articles give a false sense of 
concreteness. *The* [Americans|French] are not something that really 
exists in this context.)  

I almost wonder why it causes so much offense.  Almost.  Of course, no one
wants to read a lot of insults to his country.  But the coverage (more or 
less factual) of the large number of stupid horses' asses in _my_ country 
seems more damaging; and the article, or the snapshot of it that I looked 
at, doesn't ignore that aspect of the matter.  I'd rather not have such 
infomration about Americans exposed to the world's view, but one doesn't 
want to suppress the facts.  (Not that one can; not that the French don't 
know about this stuff without Wikipedia; but here we have all the gory 
details.)  

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