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Article #4584Re: Help a poor french student !!!!!!!!!!
From: Larry Phillips
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 00:00
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 00:00
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babydoll wrote:
>
> Alain Blu wrote:
>> Another of this anti-French attitude in some groups I mentioned
>> earlier!
>> Could anyone explain to me the reason for this aggressive behaviour?
>
> Yes, I can. It's called xenophobia.
Better try again. According to WWWebster:
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Main Entry: xe�no�pho�bia
Pronunciation: "ze-n&-'fO-bE-&, "zE-
Function: noun
Etymology: New Latin
Date: 1903
: fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is
strange or foreign
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I have lived in France, Germany and Sardinia, and have travelled through
Denmark, Luxembourg, Belgium, Holland, Switzertland, Italy, Spain,
Egypt, and the US. In exactly none of those countries did I find
a cultural trait quite so obnoxious as the xenophobia, rudeness,
and self-centeredness of the French. In none of those countries did
find myself disliking the 'national character'.
Nope... xenophobia is not it. In fact, it's one of the things I don't
like about the French, whether they be in France or Quebec, and believe
me when I tell you that in this regard, there is little or no
difference.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 111b92,720a1d742bb6f611 X-Google-Attributes: gid111b92,public X-Google-Thread: 10ed3b,720a1d742bb6f611 X-Google-Attributes: gid10ed3b,public X-Google-Thread: 102ffd,720a1d742bb6f611 X-Google-Attributes: gid102ffd,public X-Google-Thread: 10e7bd,720a1d742bb6f611 X-Google-Attributes: gid10e7bd,public X-Google-Thread: ff20b,720a1d742bb6f611 X-Google-Attributes: gidff20b,public From: Larry Phillips <larryp1@home.com> Subject: Re: Help a poor french student !!!!!!!!!! Date: 1998/11/17 Message-ID: <36510AEC.DFD34790@home.com> X-Deja-AN: 412668698 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit References: <71d04r$jcg$1@platane.wanadoo.fr> <363B154E.B2974321@spam.com> <910450022.802605@si1-paris> <Q3wSLJA3wLR2EwYw@gvass.demon.co.uk> <3646D06F.C65B364C@club-internet.fr> <36476daf.156089587@news.rdc1.bc.wave.home.com> <72l3aq$cek$1@platane.wanadoo.fr> <364E63F5.A68DAFA8@home.com> <36500C40.118544CF@club-internet.fr> <3650AC8E.D446C757@tig.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Organization: @Home Network MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: larryp1@home.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 21:33:36 PDT Newsgroups: alt.usage.english,can.english,can.schoolnet.english,maus.talk.english,misc.education.language.english