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France is well know as being the little Russia and certainly a deep reserve of anti American sentiment. Mostly due to media and education brainwashing.

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Spoken like a true American who only heard about those places from TV shows, movies, and mass media "coverage"...

"media and education brainwashing" LOL

I think you both need to read the book this submission is based on and try to apply some of its lessons in this thread.

Beyond common ground and "we're all human" triteness, there are also deep cultural faults...

The book is right in addressing the ones it does.

But not every aspect of a culture is valid.

I was trying to say: stop doing this US/EU stereotype insult exchange stuff. It's boring and it's been done to death on basically every platform where people have been able to (pseudo)anonymously communicate.

Funny because, actually, I'm not American. You might want to avoid ad hominem attacks when you want to make a point.

When the USSR broke up, I had a school teacher at the time who said Russia will cease to be an enemy and become like France, an ally that opposes us a lot and causes headaches just out of national pride.

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