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Originally posted by MagiK:
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Originally posted by Cerek the Barbaric:
Yes, I saw that thread Chewbacca. Very embarassing. [img]graemlins/blush.gif[/img]
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I don't see anything embarresing about American home owners sending the French Government a message by closing their homes to French people. It is after all one of the few ways a simple American citizen can actually make any message heard by another government. I also believe that in so doing they are NOT comitting racism..since the French do not make up a race.
[/QUOTE]MagiK, I wish people made the distinction between the people and the government. IF those American people had wanted to send a message to the French government, they could have sent a letter or signed a petition. What they are doing instead is send a message of defiance to some French people.
Cerek, no need to feel embarrassed ! [img]smile.gif[/img] These people don't represent all America - they certainly don't represent you, for one. And about the remembrance of WWII and the U.S. soldiers who came to France to help us, it is again a matter of not confusing the government and the people. We all are very grateful to the people, the soldiers who came here prepared to possibly give their life for our freedom. We can't be grateful towards a government that tells us we have to do what it says because we are ordered to show gratitude to it ! [img]smile.gif[/img]
MagiK's mention of 'race' brings a thought to me : certainly there are now a number of French people who are unknowingly half-American or quarter-American by blood ...