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2009-12-19 Europe

Tensions grow as French debate national identity

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Posted by ryuge 2009-12-19 11:16|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 The French Identity

Posted by Crusoter Dark Lord of the Algonquins7749 2009-12-19 11:49|| 2009-12-19 11:49|| Front Page Top

#2 I like Peter Sellers' Clouzot, hilarious, even in the bad later PP, but didn't really "get" it until I was able to watch movies in english; very funny performance; one similar, though not as funny was Kevin Kline's french accent in "French kiss" (with a non-sensical song from the Negresses Vertes in the OST, cool), so-so movie, but weird to watch in original version, because his (non-descript) french accent really is flawless, or almost.
As for the french debate silliness, it was basically a stunt from the steamless, marooned sarko team to try and re-prop up his "conservative" image (outside of the MSM kabuki pretense that sarko is "conservative", if not "rightwing") that had the unintended consequence of letting some of the repressed stuff bubble uop to the surface. Of course, on the official side, the gist of it was the obligatory Diversity credo - summarized by sarko with a "France has changed, you've got to accept it and adapt" capsule, or by a minister's infamous "there are no français de souche (= rooted french, blood & soil people", meaning that as is the party line, immigrants are "as french as anybody else, if not more, because they chose to come to France". Sure, why not?

Posted by anonymous5089 2009-12-19 15:06|| 2009-12-19 15:06|| Front Page Top

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