Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/02/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Walt-- I believe that relations between Frenchmen and US Americans can get so strained because we are so much alike. Both overthrew kings, both are independent to the point of being insular. What other countries get so defensive about language? Both are overly self-important and get feelings hurt much too easily. Both are loathe to admit needing help. Ric On Feb 28, 2007, at 3:07 PM, Walt Johnson wrote: > the natives seemed much more inclined to take care of German > tourists than American ones and this seemed puzzling. Perhaps I > expected more because my father spent a year in a German POW camp > after trying to liberate Paris. His father did some time in the > trenches circa 1917/18 for the same reason. Go figure? > > Walt >