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From: davel@zehntel.UUCP (David Longerbeam)
Newsgroups: net.travel
Subject: Re: Re:  Paris, France
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Date: Tue, 19-Nov-85 12:36:40 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 19 12:36:40 1985
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> 
> Further, I found the French to be warm and friendly and generally not
> anti-American.  
> 
> Now I know Americans who will argue both these points.  These are the
> same Americans who resent French nationalistic feelings by French people
> but who feel that Americans should be more "patriotic!"  I suppose they
> want the French to bow and scrape forever because of WW II, not
> realizing that we had our own axe to grind.
>    .
     .
>    .
> Brint Cooper
> 
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> 

I am an American who will argue both these points, and I am NOT the
kind who thinks that Americans should be more "patriotic", nor do I
resent French nationalism.  While I found many French people to be
warm and friendly, (especially those who were ALSO travellers, or who
I met through personal contacts), the average Frenchman/Frenchwoman
I met on the street, in AND out of Paris, was very often rude and
impatient.

Although, one has to admit that one can find the same anti-tourist
attitudes in San Francisco, for example, as one finds in Paris.
It must be very disconcerting to have one's beautiful home city
be overrun by loud, gawking tourists every season.  And the 
"Ugly American" does exist.

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David Longerbeam @ Zehntel Automation Systems, Walnut Creek, CA
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> Brint Cooper
> 
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