Merou

hey tell her that I'll take her to Paris, no problem! ;-)

Rennen

You're just taking offense and high-tailing it out....which just strikes me as...well...demonstrating exactly the kind of behavior that John doesn't care for in the first place.

hoTTub

I hope not, I take people for what they are as individuals, I only generalize about whole countries =-p

Rennen

But you're not offering any rational arguments....just emotional blather IMO.

Rennen

That's inane.

hoTTub

Hey you.....keep your hands off her baguettes =-p

hoTTub

someone always steps over the line

Merou

I'm saying that "the french disgust me" and "if you want to defend France, why are you here" are not statements that make me feel very welcome. In fact, it makes me feel like people are going to be throwing stones at me on my way home. There is a difference between disapproving of a country's policy and making that kind of statements about that country.

John P. (TT 225)

times.

Why is it that many Canadian travelers in Europe stitch Canadian flags on their baggage? Because they don't want to be treated as Americans.

Every time I go to France I speak the language. I've been shortchanged, sneered at, etc., far too many times to believe your assertion that anti-Americanism doesn't exist in France. I'm courteous first, contemptuous later. I haven't experienced this treatment in any of these countries/protectorates, EVER:

-Germany
-UK
-Ireland
-Spain
-Austria
-Switzerland
-Netherlands
-Italy
-Luxembourg
-Greece
-Israel
-Singapore
-Thailand
-Australia
-Japan
-Indonesia
-Hong Kong
-Mexico
-Canada
-Costa Rica

Rennen

I hear you and agree with that part....it's equally irrational.