That's a not widely held belief of the French protesters in America. I suspect most of us (certainly most of the people I know) see the various strikes in the n

That's a not widely held belief of the French protesters in America. I suspect most of us (certainly most of the people I know) see the various strikes in the news and are happy we don't live there. On a personal anecdote, I recall a French student who attended my university in America comment at one point how surprised he was by the amount of content our courses got through, since we weren't frequently interrupted by strikes of one sort or another. That said, I do agree with the most of the rest of your points. Plenty of people here have overly romanticized views of protest and civil disobedience.