On 16 Mar 2003 at 10:21, Nick Arnett wrote: > > > France has a VERY strong Neo-Nazi majority, especially at present. > > > > The majority of people in France today are neo-Nazis? I'm starting > > to wonder if I've completely lost my mind. > > Okay, now I realize what you meant to write. Sorry, had just woken up > and should have known. > > I don't mean to diminish the significance of right-wing extremists in > France and hope that nothing I've written suggests that it is not a > meaningful political issue. As I wrote earlier, it goes back to the
I don't see it as political. This is because, simply of my background. I see in terms of threat. There are constant attacks against Jews in many forms in France, far worse than the small slips in the media which constitute the majority of "attacks" in the UK. I also don't tend to get on personally with the French. I was living a few years back with a French Jew, and there was an incident when he pulled a knife in me (for which I got the blame, since the witness came it about the time I took the knife and showed the Frenchman the floor). > in France. In the upper circles of power, the position you were born > into still matters far more than it ever has in the United States. I won't say it's entirely unimportant over here - it helps, certainly. > There's also the matter of French preservation of language and > culture. It is a country where it can be illegal to use a foreign > word in business. When computers first became widely available, I've never really understood this. Andy Dawn Falcon _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
