3 ms·
"Americanophobia", or whatever you'd call it, isn't real in France. It doesn't exist. People hate Google because it's arrogant, sleazy, utterly contemptuous of
by Bayart 5y ago
"Americanophobia", or whatever you'd call it, isn't real in France. It doesn't exist. People hate Google because it's arrogant, sleazy, utterly contemptuous of the law - not because it's American. It's still behind companies like Über or Amazon, though.
- chrisseaton 5y agoObviously not all French people are anti-American, and paradoxically the French love McDonalds, but it certainly exists. Here's the research and the context on why it's like that: https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/meuniercesnewsletter0105_0.pdf https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/meunierces... > France is the country with the deepest, most sedimented reservoir of anti-American arguments. This is an example of what the author calls '“Sovereignist” anti-Americanism'.
- Bayart 5y agoI have to dispute that qualifier. The French school of strategic thinking, which I think really is, or should be, the subject of the paper is only anti-American insofar as America is the dominant power. It's anti-Russian in a context where Russian is the dominant power, or anti-Chinese, or anti-Maltese and so on. If you go to the roots of it, you'd see it's really anti-Hapsburgian originally. Other points are minor, not really worth considering and within the normal variance of interactions between cultures. It's not any worse than how French people consider say the English or the Italian, probably better.