I recently read my friends blog noting that he had received a joke email “bashing” the French. At first I thought, “Hey, did I send him the email he is referring to”.
I think the “bashing” was not out of hate, but of jealous pride.
I often look at the French culture as a cornucopia of art, expression, passion and most of all freedom (of all I love freedom the most).
Like all cultures, French are much more than that… meet a Frenchman and he will surely let you know this. He is as proud as any American to be who he is.
I do not think this is a “French” thing.
As I am as proud of my “cocktail” culture of second generation American German as one could be… Not of where I came from, but who got me here…who died for my freedom, who sacrificed their own heritage, families and cultures to ensure mine.
Like my “French American” friend, I was born and raised a proud American.
While I may be a little German and little English… I have always felt I had the romantic, passionate and Freedom loving heart of a Frenchman with 100% red American blood pumping through it.
Be proud of who you are America, you have been given that right...