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From: marko@tekecs.UUCP (Mark O'Shea)
Newsgroups: net.travel
Subject: Re: Just one more Paris observation
Message-ID: <5919@tekecs.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 30-Jan-86 12:16:12 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 30 12:16:12 1986
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References: <454@lzaz.UUCP> <466@olivee.UUCP> <11500@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <476@olivee.UUCP>
Reply-To: marko@tekecs.UUCP (Mark O'Shea(alanh))
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Summary: 

In article <476@olivee.UUCP> greg@olivee.UUCP (Greg Paley) writes:
>> 
>> Actually, I think that this is one of the better parts of Europe. In a
>> lot of ways, I think that the good old USA is becoming a rather sterile
>> and antispectic (sp?) place.  We seem to be trying to deny our contact
>> with the natural world. (Even on children's TV, many of the cartoon
>> heros are now machines instead of people.)  Accepting animals of a
>> natural part of your environment is, in part, a recognition that your
>> are part of nature yourself.  (Of course, if many people are driven
>> to deny their natural selves by trying to completely hide their natural
>> odors and pretend that they don't deficate, only "rest.")
>> 
>
>I think this is a good point, and is perhaps only the tip of an iceberg.
>I've found repeatedly in dealing with Europeans that they tend to find
>us Americans superficial and "glossed over".  I've also heard a number
>of them make the observation that the sort of instant cameraderie we
>affect actually seems detrimental to the formation of deeper friendships.
>These are points that I've been hard put to argue.
>
>	- Greg Paley/Olivetti ATC


I, too, have heard this criticism.  The counter to it is that some Europeans 
are xenophobic, and clanish and use this criticism of Americans to hide that 
fact.  I have found many Europeans to be friendly and very pleasant.  I even 
found friendly French in Paris.

Mark O'Shea