The French: I am writing about the French because they have had quite an effect on me. I mean, I kind of consider myself French. Whenever an American asks me where I am from, their response to my "France" is invariably a demonstration of how uncultured, unintelligent, and/or unknowledgeable they are. They will generally break out into a triumphant cry of "Fromage!", and then laugh. Or worse, they'll itch their head and pose the …showed first 75 words of 1730 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1730 total…ong period of time, and that still retains elements of its Gallic, Roman, Germanic, Medieval, Renaissance, Revolutionary, and Philosophical backgrounds. The rest of the world has an inaccurate image of them, because it is the face that the French present to the outsiders; an unfortunate flaw in an otherwise great mindset and society that coined the term "joie de vivre", a term that most other languages don't even have their own translation of.