tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4866784164489453011.post249331492445347959..comments2023-11-02T03:00:30.829-07:00Comments on Non, je ne regrette rien: politics ... culture ... ignorance.Non Je Ne Regrette Rienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02973542459591839879noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4866784164489453011.post-36374608282351718662009-02-01T04:46:00.000-08:002009-02-01T04:46:00.000-08:00I've found Obama's election has made some of the F...I've found Obama's election has made some of the French stop and think about their own racism. They seemed to love to point at the US as an example of a racist society, as if all social progress in the US had stopped the day of the March on Washington.<BR/><BR/>Nationalism is kind of another issue, I know...Betty Carlsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17155852272383173880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4866784164489453011.post-36719980630774339212009-01-29T07:29:00.000-08:002009-01-29T07:29:00.000-08:00I have to admit that I'm not crazy about certain 2...I have to admit that I'm not crazy about certain 2nd generation "immigrants" (in this I mean the children of the immigrants who have come from Northern Africa or any other non-"occidental" country) who moan about how awful their life [in France] is, how nobody respects them as being "French" and then masses of them go and boo the National Anthem! Or burn cars. Or synegogues or.... or...<BR/><BR/>Basically, cut the legs out from under themselves.<BR/><BR/>Nationalism is a sticky business. Fer sur.JChevaishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02683339168047479228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4866784164489453011.post-67380498288384295662009-01-29T01:55:00.000-08:002009-01-29T01:55:00.000-08:00It always makes me laugh when I hear the English c...It always makes me laugh when I hear the English citing "too many immigrants" as the reason they're moving to Spain or France!Annahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13443527125531144896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4866784164489453011.post-39603225570335409832009-01-28T23:52:00.000-08:002009-01-28T23:52:00.000-08:00a english friends "father" was here in France last...a english friends "father" was here in France last week and we were having lunch and he said (are you sitting down) "he didn't know why we would vote for Obama because people of his ilk haven't done a very good job running africia". SERIOUSLY. I just bit my tongue. <BR/><BR/>We also have another British (can't really call him a friend) man that said basically the same thing about the middle easterns in England, telling us they get everything and don't speak the language and don't try but are taken care of by the government. Just not fair he said.<BR/><BR/>There was a film done about 4 years ago called (i think) a day without or someting like that...it basically showed how our state would shut down, come to a complete stop if we didn't have our Hispanic workers, the ones who take the jobs that pay minimum wage (they usually have 2 jobs). How silly we are to think that we are better or wish they wouldn't be in our country or state. <BR/><BR/>Huh?Our Juicy Lifehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01837321365147180741noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4866784164489453011.post-40870411422123764682009-01-28T04:16:00.000-08:002009-01-28T04:16:00.000-08:00oh, french class! what a great place to people wat...oh, french class! what a great place to people watch. i had one in paris where there was a young mother from Lebanon and an older man from Iran and a transvestite from columbia, lots of fun ensued as you can imagine. we learned french as well.<BR/><BR/>I would have trouble keeping my mouth shut in your class as that kind of stuff ruffles my feathers. i find i have to bite my tongue often in france because i am not fluent enough to make my case and end up sounding like a raving three year old.<BR/><BR/>god, i miss french classes.<BR/><BR/>randal- well said. brilliant. see if i could just say that in french.Riana Lagardehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09109433903018201393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4866784164489453011.post-37520798894332199132009-01-27T09:56:00.000-08:002009-01-27T09:56:00.000-08:00randal ~ exactemente!softinthehead ~ mais oui, bie...randal ~ exactemente!<BR/><BR/>softinthehead ~ mais oui, bien sur! and yet, they huff and puff about others. It is also human nature, in my opinion, to have the need/desire to find another class of humans to look down upon thusly elevating themselves (in their own irrational minds) ...Non Je Ne Regrette Rienhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02973542459591839879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4866784164489453011.post-14428784111182597072009-01-27T09:19:00.000-08:002009-01-27T09:19:00.000-08:00Er ...did it not occur to anyone else that most at...Er ...did it not occur to anyone else that most attendees I assume are "immigrants"? Or am I missing something?softintheheadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01365562754859033869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4866784164489453011.post-80244287951643826862009-01-27T08:27:00.000-08:002009-01-27T08:27:00.000-08:00You should see how much they get if they mention t...You should see how much they get if they mention they're with Al-Qaeda. <BR/><BR/>Wanna know why terrorist organizations exist, why death and mayhem seems so easily grasped by the young? <BR/><BR/>Despair. <BR/><BR/>When you have nothing to look forward to, you're going to resort to extreme measures. Shit, if I was born in Gaza, it's quite conceivable I'd be going "I love Hamas, give me a fucking gun."<BR/><BR/>Of course, wingnuts will point out shit like the Supreme Ayatollah in Iran condemning the male vs. female soccer match the other day as proof that we need to bomb someone into the stone age. Look, fundies of any religion are fucking insane, but that's where all this comes in. Everything is tied together. Improved economics and opportunity, not resorting to blowing the hell out of something at the first dirty look, dropping the colonial pretensions and overt war crimes. It goes for everyone, East, West. <BR/><BR/>Problem is, those with the power, the presidents and prime ministers and clerics and kings and all that shit don't care. <BR/><BR/>I had a coherent point in there somewhere.Randal Graveshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08728992897551848531noreply@blogger.com