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I've found it's true as well in France, regarding a lot of things, like the middle age, age of enlightenment, the French Revolution and colonisation.
by baud147258 8y ago
I've found it's true as well in France, regarding a lot of things, like the middle age, age of enlightenment, the French Revolution and colonisation.
- saiya-jin 8y agoYeah, french people are very patriotic. There are some good reasons for that, be it past or present, beauty of the country etc, but as with other over-patriotic countries (I am looking at you US, but not only), a lot of people like simple world views so France/US/whatever becomes simply the best country ever, no real discussion allowed, critical view is ignored or simply attacked. A bit more humble approach would do everybody much better, since every single country out there has done things to be ashamed of, or outright utterly horrible. Realizing you are not that much better than the other guy may bring some sense of equality that I don't see in current world (american life worth more than some other, modern colonialism done by former colonial powers including US, Russia and probably China, and so on and on).
- baud147258 8y agoWell, it not always in that direction, sure we got some patriotic chest-thumping but also some abhorence of past achievements/periods/characters.