At 14:15 05/05/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Christophe Grandsire wrote:
>
>> For a French person, a word like "unamerican" and the like is a mark of a
>> deep chauvinism (not that we're not chauvinist of course :) )
>
>Naturally! After all, your language gave the world this useful word.
>
Well, it was only to refer to the behaviour of foreigners of course :)))) .
Everybody knows that chauvinism is absolutely foreign to French people
:))))) .
>> We don't have a "French way of life" the same way as the "American way of
>> life". Or at least we don't name it.
>
>All are urged to read the "How to tell if you are American/Brazilian/French/
>Scottish/German/Japanese/Finnish/Charyan/Texan" pages at
>
http://www.zompist.com/amercult.html . Many of these pages have actually
>been written by our own people!
>