Une Nuit a Paris

How terribly amusing to read about your American forays into Europe . You will never understand . Henry James is the only American who understood Europe .

Your families sacrificed their culture for the idea of freedom . Freedom is a terribly noble word , but what your families really wanted was MONEY . Nothing wrong with that of course . But that heritage means that you have lost Art . And you have no culture of your own in strictu sensu .

[barefoot serpent]

Originally Posted by Buddug

How terribly amusing to read about your American forays into Europe . You will never understand . Henry James is the only American who understood Europe .

Your families sacrificed their culture for the idea of freedom . Freedom is a terribly noble word , but what your families really wanted was MONEY . Nothing wrong with that of course . But that heritage means that you have lost Art . And you have no culture of your own in strictu sensu .

Hey, they have like a 1000 year head start... give us a chance to catch up! Now that we have some money, we can buy us some culture.

[xoxoxoBruce]

france and culture are 100 years apart and repelling each other by ever increasing orders of magnitude.
The french traded their culture for imperialism then fascism, and more recently for multi-cultural-ism that's coming home to roost in such a way that french will mean nothing at all.