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Well, I done been there, and I gots to say, I don't appreciate what a small group of individuals did to me because I was an american, and (Oh, the horrors,) the child of a military man. Sad. To throw rocks at a six year old. The actions of a few can color your perspective, if you let them. I haven't.
I don't remember the entire French nation throwing rocks at me, or chasing me out of businesses, ect. and calling me "Yank" like it was a dirty word. I was six to almost eight, and it happened in France and in England, but that was years and miles ago.
Seems the political climate can become so tense that people everywhere have a tendency to take their anger and frustrations out on individuals when they can't hurt the government that distresses them. I spent a year and a half in that climate, thank you, and it wasn't any fun, but there were a handful of decent people who didn't act that way.
E_E and Al are smarter than that. They are angry, and express it honestly. You know where they stand, but they wouldn't throw rocks at a kid.
I don't appreciate some of the things that are said about "Yanks" on other sites I go to. The level of paranoia I see on some of the U.K. threads conserning the actions of the U.S. government is astounding. Politically, I'm not crazy about most of the governments running this globe, but I don't hate the French. I just don't appreciate their political actions of the recent past.
That's okay, because lots of U.S. citizens do.
They are entitled to their opinion.
As far as the harsh words said on this thread, they are about par with some I've read on other sites, slamming the U.S. Cruise the bbc threads long enough, and you'll get the drift. Apparently we are barbarians bent on nuking the world.
Thing is, They sound to me like the lunatic fringe. Yet they populate forums that are heavily trafficked, and are not called down by the admins. I don't want to be like them. Two wrongs don't make a right.
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