01-04-2012, 05:25 PM
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Area Man
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: The Swamp
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Originally Posted by finnbow
I've heard (and believe) that the personality trait you hate most in others is your own strongest personality trait.
Similarly, I believe that the reason we love to hate the French is because they're so much like us - the two oldest democracies in the world who firmly believe in their own exceptionalism, culture, language, self-righteousness ....
I've spent lots of time in France, from Normandy to Brittany, Paris, Provence, the Alsace, the Alps, and the Cote d'Or. Great place and fine people. FWIW, New Yorkers make Parisians seem overtly pleasant and accommodating.
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You got that right. And who could possibly be more conceited and arrogant than a Texan? Those guys just think they run the whole effin' world.
Dave
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