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[Nickswitz]

4 years ago, school trip to Caen.

Right. 2006... At the worst of Bush's unpopularity, if you discount the Iraqi Invasion, 2003?

I'd venture you were the (unlucky) victim of a burst of hostility between your two countries. Also, please remember the difference of behavior between the two culture. Being that kind of unpleasant isn't that uncommon from the French (that is why they got the kind of reputation they got), as for Americans, it's only reserved for people you want to deliberatly humilate and inflict the worst possible treatment possible, so you probably perceive more insult than actually was meant.

A French can very possibly treat you like that one month, and the next invite you over for dinner to make you taste his most recent vintage. They are like that. Remember Jean-Luc's brother?

Reliant is one of the many Brits on here, not American.

[SolkaTruesilver]

4 years ago, school trip to Caen.

Right. 2006... At the worst of Bush's unpopularity, if you discount the Iraqi Invasion, 2003?

I'd venture you were the (unlucky) victim of a burst of hostility between your two countries. Also, please remember the difference of behavior between the two culture. Being that kind of unpleasant isn't that uncommon from the French (that is why they got the kind of reputation they got), as for Americans, it's only reserved for people you want to deliberatly humilate and inflict the worst possible treatment possible, so you probably perceive more insult than actually was meant.

A French can very possibly treat you like that one month, and the next invite you over for dinner to make you taste his most recent vintage. They are like that. Remember Jean-Luc's brother?

Reliant is one of the many Brits on here, not American.

Oh well, darn my Canadianism.

Still. I don't know much about British culture, but I do know about how the French usually behave, and what is acceptable and what's not. That usually put many of them at odds with foreigners, since many other people from other culture tend to take it personnaly. I'd say they are "casual vicious", meaning that what they do seems quite bad, but isn't intended to be.

On the other hand, you can't say they are hippocrits when it comes to interpersonal relations.

[Reliant121]

I apologise for my comment about the iraq deployments. I assumed you were american because...well from around here Canada sort of gets lumped with America.

I expect kendall to kill me for that.

To be fair, 1000 years of Anglo-Gallic relations being..well war really, isn't going to change in a few decades.

[SolkaTruesilver]

I apologise for my comment about the iraq deployments. I assumed you were american because...well from around here Canada sort of gets lumped with America.

I expect kendall to kill me for that.

To be fair, 1000 years of Anglo-Gallic relations being..well war really, isn't going to change in a few decades.

No worry. I was a little sarcastic myself, I hope it's not a touchy topic with you.

1000 years of raiding. Pillage. Rape. Oppression. Drafting, etc... Most of it happening on France's ground. And with the English/American cultural products always depicting themselves as the "Good Guys" all the time, even if England was the one conquering France. Burning down their national heroes, downgrading their achievements at every turn, and demonizing their greatest historical leaders.

Not to forget having Britain raising their nose at France's war effort during WW2 while the only thing that kept Germans out of GB was the Channel, and nothing else. And thu having Americans and British taking potshots at it on every single occasion, like you actually think the Occupation was a party for the French after they surrendered, while you get to be the moral superiors because you had the good luck of being born on the right side of the waterway.

Yhea, they might be touchy about Britishes.

[Reliant121]

Of course.

We've warred just about everyone, stolen, pillaged, burned and raped more countries than anyone.
I'm not proud of that btw.

[SolkaTruesilver]

Of course.

We've warred just about everyone, stolen, pillaged, burned and raped more countries than anyone.
I'm not proud of that btw.

I don't think anyone is truly proud of these moments of history.

Except, you know, in movies. In that case, Americans are always the clear moral superior against anyone in their path, and Their Country Did Good^tm.
And if the movie is set before the A. Revolution, it's the British who are. (inter-British conflict usually will root for the underdog, obviously).

This kind of resentment isn't born out of national envy over such a superior history, but because of a constant depiction of bias in cultural products produced. Since cultural trade usually goes one way (I still have to see a single French or Quebecois or Canadian movie shown in general theaters in the U.S.), it may lead to some people actually believing these depiction if no balanced P.O.V. is provided.

[Reliant121]

Strangely enough the film Amelie, or Le Fabuleaux Destin D'Amelie Poulain in France, proved surprisingly popular a while back.

[Tyyr]

I'd say they are "casual vicious", meaning that what they do seems quite bad, but isn't intended to be.

No that's called being a dickhead.

Spitting on an 11 year old kid is more than being a dickhead. You're an irredeemable shit at that point.

[Reliant121]

Don't worry.

I made sure I knew how to swear in French for just such an occasion.

Nothing ever said I had to behave myself

[SolkaTruesilver]

Strangely enough the film Amelie, or Le Fabuleaux Destin D'Amelie Poulain in France, proved surprisingly popular a while back.

All right, point. Still, one movie, out of how many that came out that year? And every year ever since?

The penetratio ratio is clearly tilted in the American movies' favor. For various reasons, I have to say. But one of them is, apparently, the Executive's belief that anything not american will probably not interest the average american consumer.

Thu, most of the exposure the americans gets of French cinema is through the REMAKES

[Tyyr]

We're America, of course our penetration ratio is better.

[Reliant121]

I just giggled.

/Immaturity.

[Tyyr]

There was nothing mature about that statement.

[Reliant121]

Good, I achieved my aims.

[Tyyr]

We're America, of course our penetration ratio is better.

I meant this statement.