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Article: Backlash against France, its culture is off base. (Commentary).(France's politicians and policies)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- March 24, 2003
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HERE is what I think about France: I am in high school. My parents have a surprise. I have never been to Europe before. I get a passport. I board a plane. I speak to a cab driver, for the first time, in a foreign language. I see the Eiffel Tower, at night, in the winter, with the French words for "Happy New Year" illuminated on its side.
Here is what I think about France: I am a college student. I visit a friend. She's living in Paris, in a "flat" and she is reading paperbacks and wearing sweaters for warmth and she knows the difference between the breads in the bakery where she shops each morning.
Here is what I think about France: I am a young man on a ...