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thinker posted: 08-07-2009 | 4:33 PM

I am an American, so I am used to other Americans viewing me as an "opportunity".
I like the French because they have no interest in exploiting those they don't know. They do not consider anyone foreign an "opportunity. They have their permanent contracts of employment and childhood friends, so who needs other types of "opportunities?
In fact, the French are afraid of "strangers" which makes for a lot of personal privacy which is a big plus.

I understand why their economic system requires " no customer service" and only "fixed, high prices" with a take it or leave it attitude.
Every transaction must be certain and nonrefundable. The French state needs your money to redistribute to others for purposes you are never allowed to know.

I also like the fact that the country is run like a huge military base. There is total assimilation making the French appear robotic. This makes it easy never to spend any discretionary money shopping in France for anything besides food.

I do like their public transporation and medical care system.
These two things are very important during the coming economic depression.

John Ireland posted: 12-08-2009 | 6:45 PM

I started thinking about moving to Paris in 1998...now it is possible but France and the world have changed greatly. I am most concerned about what seems to be a double standard of justice...you can preach hate against anyone if you are a Muslim...but you are guilty of a crime if you say anthing negative about Islam. Muslim youth can set fire to your car and it is protest, Briget Bardot speaks out against kosher killing of animals and it is okay, but if she speaks out against Muslims doing the same thing and she is charged with a hate crime. So what is the reality, is France culture being swamped by Muslims?

Jeff Taylor posted: 03-09-2009 | 2:38 PM

@John Ireland, this is a general problem in the West in general, which has allowed itself to be taken advantage of by Muslims. An effort at tolerance and good will by modern Westerners is rewarded with attempts to set up schools of indoctrination in Western societies, establishment of Sharia law, and an effort to promote all things Muslim at the expense of local cultures.

Ironically, the French, who admire in many ways, started this business of entertaining multiculturalism (which ends up destroying cultures in general), is now biting them back. Multiculturalism only works if both sides are tolerant of differences and agree to a common law, and that is an incompatible way of life for the Muslim community at large driven by their self-aggrandizing caliphs and a religious programming that they and they alone are fit to rule. We are seeing it here in the US as well, where multiculturalism is almost a religion itself and now everyone is at each other's throats based on what group/ethnicity they belong too, and this is not white-problem, it's a human-problem. Back to the point, the old France that maintained it's distinct culture was appealing... the New France overrun with Muslims on a mission to change the world who despise the culture and want to tear it down is not.