[Jumper]

Jews are at the root the racism displayed and hatred of America? 1942-1945 and the Vincy Government of France.... Today, not month passes where a Jew or a Jewish place of worship is not attacked, with barely a mention in French media.

The humiliations and setbacks that France suffered at American hands in the twentieth century chafe so badly in part because they rub the old wounds that the British inflicted in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The British destroyed the empires of the Bourbons and Bonaparte; the rise of the United States established a new superpower league in world politics in which France can never compete. The dog-eat-dog competition of Anglo-Saxon capitalism forces French firms to adjust, and it steadily undermines France's efforts to maintain its social status quo. The English language has replaced French in science, diplomacy, and letters; the list goes on

Today, France has polling data to support over 70% of her population is anti-American (See the International Herald Tribune Newspaper). France is like a 14-year brat, won't listen to others, won't take turns and won't quit crying over yesterday's arguement.

[Dudesdad]

Why do they hate us?
Please don't waste my time on things I couldn't care less about.

[tophat9000]

bump

[pachanga]

Thanks for the post. Enlightening in how the french have had an inferiority complex for centuries. Like the desperate whore that got passed over over nite after nite ad nauseum.

[headsonpikes]

Foreign Affairs is in touch with the new zeitgeist, I note. ;^)

[DeuceTraveler]

"Anglo-Saxon-driven globalization, with its attendant requirements of low taxes"

I'd like low taxes.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

"...Americans are unusually interested in what France has to say." When did this happen ?