They allow this on French Television? I wonder what kind of ratings it gets?

http://www.lidealiste.com/article.php/id/1688

As far as I can tell, the show does quite well. According to the link above, 43% of the tv audience in its time slot. I can't find a date on the link, but the article seems fairly recent.

So you can see why I was so surprised to see something so pro-NYC, can't you?

MiniTruth permits this??

Valerie

Its like I said before. There are not as many Frenchmen who veiw America like LeMonde would like them to. I have never met a Frenchman on the web who has expressed ingratitude for the liberation.
If 50% of Frenchmen thought ill of America, where are they?
I see instead almost half of French households tuned to a pro America show. Someone isn't telling the truth.

Well, I'd like to think that half of the French are not anti-USA, but I have yet to meet more than 2 or 3 under the age of 70 with a kind word to say, so I'm not optimistic.

If you can read French, or if it is ever translated into English, which I hope, I highly recommend reading this book, a detailed history of French anti-Americanism. But beware, it's sickening.

Of course, right away, they won't tell you they're anti-American. But as soon as you begin to talk with them, you wish you had never mentioned America, trust me.

A recent survey has found that more than half of the French think they owe nothing to America. Most of the French today think Germany is a better ally while the US isn't.

And even with most of those that are "pro-American", you find that feeling of superiority, the kind of affection the great, colonist nation is supposed to have for the poor, young, savage nation.

I wish I could say you're right. I really wish. But there is a reason why people keep buying and reading Le Monde.

And the worst comes indeed from the young generation. Feed them with the worst of communist or islamist propaganda, as long as it is anti-American, they'll believe it, repeat it, hurl abuse.

I am an American who has lived in France for nine years.

I speak French, so I know what French people are saying.

I have never come across French people bashing the American people. They are critical, as are many Americans, of the current American government and its actions abroad, but no more than Germany and Spain. In
general, the French like American people, and the signs of American culture abound in France.

The attitude of the German government is almost identical to that of the French, but I never hear German bashing. Why is that?

Staninfrance

Stan -

You are very lucky to have never heard anything anti-American in your 9 years. I've been here over 14 and I have heard it all from the mouths of the French (mostly younger generations, but not exclusively) and read it all in the magazines and on the nightly news and on all the debate shows.

I am bilingual and was even born here. I do not criticize the country where I was born lightly.

The French criticize only the US government and its actions? Get real. Calling our president a cowboy and idiot goes way beyond that. Blathering all over Kerry as if he were somehow the next messiah also proves that the French do not have a clue. The examples of anti-Americanism are out there, here at our blog, at Merde In France / No Pasaran / Dissident Frogman... Just watch Tout Le Monde En Parle...if you can stand it longer than 5 minutes.

Yes, American culture exists here. Doesn't stop the French from accusing the USA of wanting to destroy their culture. Doesn't stop them from buying the blue jeans and eating the Big Macs, either. They EMBRACE Michael Moore as if he were telling an 'American Truth'. They like him because he is a US-basher/Bush-basher.

You never hear a GOOD word about American culture except when it is about US-bashing.

The French threatened to use a veto in order to have their way, not the Germans. The Germans do not have a history (trumped up or not) of a special friendship with the USA and the Allies did not LIBERATE Germany (despite all the recent revisionism to the contrary) in WWII. Germany was the agressor, remember.

Of course, exceptions to the rule exist, like the Frenchman living in NYC as seen on this TV show (the post is about that show). I do hear an occasional positive remark from someone French. Occasional. Not every day. Not every month. Every once in a while. And I actually blog about a positive comment, show, book when I come across it.

I am much more impartial than the majority of French mainstream media. Despite my anger with Chirac and De Villepin.

French mainstream media and the government are decidedly and unfairly anti-American AT ALL TIMES. As is a lot of Europe, yes, including Germany. No impartiality there.

Go see Medienkritrik for German-bashing. We here at E-nough! concentrate on France because we live here and know it well.