Jeff,
I made a slight correction to your statement:
“I think you're getting to the heart of the Love-Hate relationship between
the Americans and the French. Americans love French culture, e.g., French
cuisine, the language, Serge Gainsbourg, but claim they hate the French
people. Likewise the French love American film, literature, Jazz, certainly
NOT Jerry Lewis, etc., but hate Americans.”
The fascination that the French have (had) about the Western genre is very
interesting and certainly not reflected in the US to the same degree. I
believe that so long as people in the US believe World War II started in
1941 and not in 1939, we’ll never be able to understand each other
completely and I wouldn’t want to see a day when we do!!
Michaël (Frenchman living in the US for 14 years)
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