In fact, the free-market “Anglo-Saxon” attitude sounds like nothing so much as the old prejudices about the French that have been around since the novelist Thackeray told English readers: “The Frenchman has after his soup a dish of vegetables, where you have one of meat.
De hecho, la actitud "anglosajona" de libre mercado suena precisamente a los viejos prejuicios sobre los franceses que han estado con nosotros desde que el novelista Thackeray dijera a los lectores británicos: "Tras la sopa, el francés come un plato de verduras, donde vosotros coméis uno de carne.