America - The Freest Country?

[Louis VI the Fat]

There's nobody stupid enough in other countries to say a triangle has 1 side. xD

Not to mention, only Americans are so self-obsessed they can't see both sides of a triangle.


@Frags:
- I must insist on the use of the cédille in 'Françaises'.

- You are correct that the French share at least one peculiarity with the Americans. One that is to no small degree responsible for their mutual image abroad as 'arrogantly self-obsessed'. Namely, that both do not travel abroad much, and may hence be somewhat lacking in understanding and appreciating foreign cultures.

Seventy percent of Frenchmen did not travel to a foreing country last year. While this is not a shocking percentage for, and possibly to, Americans or Australians, it is in stark contrast to most other West European countries, especially North Europe.
The French go skiing in the French Alps. Sunbathing on the Southcoast. To visit a foreign and distant land, they go to Brittany. (Bretagne, the French region, not the Great Island) To see Germany, Strasbourg suffices.

The French holiday abroad no more than a Spaniard goes sunbathing in Greece. What for anyway? Some people are born lucky. Others have to get on a plane for it. A lifetime doesn't suffice to discover all the wonders of France, so why waste it on visiting foreign countries whose inhabitants work all year long just to be able to flee their countries and spend two weeks in France?

Birmingham, Ruhrgebiet, Rotterdam? What am I supposed to do there anyway?


- Did you ask the shockingly ignorant Françaises whether allemand was spoken in Allemagne? Or whether German was spoken in Germany?
I just don't see the first happening with a doctor and an architect. Possibly the latter.
Or maybe they were already at the stage were they answered 'no' to all your questions.

'Care for a drink?'
Non!
Will you please sleep with me?
Non!
Do you know that the Germans speak German?
Non!