Posted on 06/08/2013 8:13:57 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
185 to 2. The Free World has certainly shrunk.
If you had ever been in the same room with Jack Valenti, you wouldn’t say that. He was a repugnant, ugly creature who had the manners and bearing of a low-level mafia enforcer. I never understood how he got - and kept his job, or how any organization other than the teamsters could want him as a representitive.
Culture war? Reminds me of something....I just bought a 1936 MAS French bolt action rifle made in 1936. It is in the most pristine condition anyone could imagine. I swear it has some of the original cosmoline in it.
Damned good condition for something that old. Almost new.
Dropped once - never fired.
France is in a perpetual culture war with the entire non-French speaking world.
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A “war” that requires no battlefield courage.
Just what U.S. “culture” is France competing with? The nose/ear/naval pierced culture? The tattoo culture, illustrated by “The Bird” playing for Miami’s Heat? The drug culture? The ghetto culture? The barrio culture?
The distinctive American culture died in the ‘60s, killed by Liberalism. It is now the Mongrel Culture.
You are right if you are talking about the U.S., but incorrect if you are talking about Europe - we don’t have a national culture - we barely even have any history - but the French - and all Europeans - do. Most of the great works of Western culture - painting, theater, music and ballet - was sponsored and funded by government or the church. That would be, to list a few: the works of Michaelangelo, Velázquez, Mozart, Shakespeare, the Russian ballets of the 19th century...In short, the masterpieces that are the foundation from which all the rest of the Western canon are derived.
Here in the U.S., if you were to stop ten native-born Americans at random on the street and ask them who is on the ten dollar bill, six of them won’t even know, seven of them, if told his name, won’t be able tell you what he did.
France has a culture? I thought they were being assimilated by the Muslim Borgs.
I do care that they want to maintain and preserve their language and cuisine; they are the essence and the soul of a national identity. To not understand that is to be a barbarian, not very different in attitude, than the Huns at the gates of Rome.
Well said.
You get that kind of "culture war" because "cultures" aren't really as distinct or as ... well ... cultural as they once were.
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Yep, that’s her.
My previous post was sloppily worded. I should’ve said that I don’t see anything objectionable to the French defense of their national identity. They do tend to overlook bigger problems while fixating on their objection to Starbucks, McDonalds and words of “Anglo” origin creeping into their language, but now at least some of them are reacting to the bigger picture.
Non, seulement avec le monde anglo-saxon.
Next time, let the Germans KEEP France!
Thank you for writing. The small picture is part of the big picture.
Hey wasnt Charles Martel French? (Rhetorical Statement)
Oui, c'est vrai.
Hollywierd and American entertainment is pooping on the whole world with it’s thugish, uninspiring and gross culture. Not that France would do better...
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