Is it possible to find nice things to say about France without the ensuing discussion rapidly evolving into a U!S!A! U!S!A! U!S!A! discussion of health-care systems and such?
I was thinking about it, but I am an ignorant american, so all I really know about is California And any time I came up with a list of good things, the other side kept filling my head.
The meme was to come up with 5 nice things about a country you did not currently, and had never lived in. While I am certian there are people who read that blog who do not live in the US.... there are a lot of other places also worthy of mentioning.
Why would there be any mention of the US, when the thread was about places one didn't or never had lived in and is presumably heavily represented by people who do or have lived in the US? Why is that surprising, or even interesting?
I'm struck by how no one there put up a list of five great things about living in the good old U.S. of A...
Does this count as evidence that one can't even have a discussion about the possibility of finding nice things to say about France without the ensuing discussion rapidly devolving, etc?
Jules Verne, a citizen of France, published Journey to the Center of the Earth in 1864. H.G. Wells published The Time Machine in 1895.
Mary Shelley, of course, published Frankenstein in 1818 -- anonymously in England. The second edition, with her name on it, was published in -- France!
And I'll take odds that you and everybody else here knows all this already.
But right about one thing, when it comes to the blues or rock and roll, you don't want anything from France. Unless it is made by French citizens of African descent.
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Fine: The USA
2: Spends a disproportionately large amount per capita on space science.
3: The go-to nation for movies with explosions in them.
4: Despite decades of anti-immigrant measures, still attracts largest absolute number of immigrants of any nation on Earth.
5: The only place I've ever had decent biscuits and gravy.
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Does this count as evidence that one can't even have a discussion about the possibility of finding nice things to say about France without the ensuing discussion rapidly devolving, etc?
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Mary Shelley, of course, published Frankenstein in 1818 -- anonymously in England. The second edition, with her name on it, was published in -- France!
And I'll take odds that you and everybody else here knows all this already.
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