Well...although I¹ve lived in the US since 69...I would say,
from the French point of view, that anything from Belgium is
to the French like anything from Poland to Americans...and I
just confirmed it (sadly enough) through a few e-mails with
family members and friends (much younger than me) in the
French Southwest and Northeast...hasn¹t changed it seems in
30 or so years...but basically.... you¹re always a peasant to
somebody else...and class/race/origin/gender... play exactly
the same roles within the US
(north/south-east/west-immigrant/not....all these binary
oppositions that complicate the shit out of everything...) Is
is animosity, is it bias???
I¹m not completely sure about your question Dave: of course
to some of us, bred and raised with a unified Europe (Common
Market utopia) in mind, to see many years later that the
Belgians are almost as silly as the Serb, Croats,
Slovenians...etc...and reproducing alienated patterns of
behaviour through their punny nasty internal wars, bitchin¹,
separations, mass murders, brings outward animosity for
them....is that your question???
...yet the same people would defend Catalan, Basque, or
Corsican rights to the core...
Where do we go with these pretty nasty and noir thoughts
though is open to discussion...and how is this reflected in
crime stories
(noir/hardboiled...etc..) published is even a larger
question...
Montois
On 2/24/08 7:26 PM, "Dave Zeltserman" <
dz@hardluckstories.com> wrote:
> A question for the European members of the
groups--is their
> some sort of animosity brewing among other European
countries these
> days against Belgium?
>
> --Dave Z.
>
>
>
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