112 Gripes About the French
This whole thing is amazing. It still reads really well today, like there&#x27;s no tone of racism and nothing seems inappropriate (which is a hard thing to achieve with time).<p>I wish we had such a book currently on how arabs and the muslim world are different, but not so different than us.<p>&gt; We didn&#x27;t come to Europe to save the French, either
in 1917 or in 1944. We didn&#x27;t come to Europe to do
anyone any favors. We came to Europe because we in
America were threatened by a hostile, aggressive and very
dangerous power.<p>&gt; In this war, France fell in June of 1940, We didn&#x27;t
invade Europe until June of 1944. We didn&#x27;t even think
of &quot;saving the French&quot; through military action until after
Peary Harbor -- after the Germans declared war on us<p>I can&#x27;t stop reading, this is so interesting, this is really a lesson on racism and discrimination. I&#x27;m curious about who wrote this.<p>&gt; It was inevitable that some Frenchmen would rub some
Americans the wrong ray=. City people often rub country
folk the wrong «ay the same goes for a Pittsburgher in
New Orleans or Texan on Fifth Avenue.
We Americans believe in the value of differences -- if basic political beliefs and goals rest on a common foundation. 
&quot;Unless you bear with the faults of a friend you betray your own.&quot;<p>another one:<p>&gt; You don&#x27;t have to love the French. You don&#x27;t have
to hate them either. You might try to understand them,
The more important point is not to let your feeling blin d
you to the fact that they were and are our allies. They
were in 1917, too.
The most important question any people can ask itself
is this: &quot;Who fights with us? Who fights against us ?&quot;<p>This one could apply to our relationship with China maybe?<p>&gt; Yes, we quarrel with the French. The members of a
family argue pretty freely inside the home ; We quarrel
with our allies, We don&#x27;t quarrel with our enemies --
we fight them.<p>I like how this one is phrased so that it sounds like France gave more money. I also really thought that France gave the statue to the US entirely.<p>&gt; In France, 180 French cities, forty general councils,
and thousands of anonymous Frenchmen contributed a
quarter of a million dollars (not francs) towards the statue, (The United States raised $280,000.)<p>that&#x27;s how much a cocktail was back then:<p>&gt; A. G.I., comes out of a night club in the States and says,
&quot;A buck and half for a Scotch and soda&quot;.<p>that one can apply to the homeless crisis in the US:<p>&gt; Some of the French are scroungers. Hungry people lose their pride. An empty stomach does not worry about losing face.<p>France sounded like a muslim country back then:<p>&gt; Most French girls before the war had far less freedom than our girls back home. A great many were not permitted to go out without a chaperone. France is dominantly
Catholic in religion and in morals.
The immoral Frenchwomen are, of course, the easiest
women for us to meet. That&#x27;s why we meet so many of
them.<p>this one is hilarious:<p>&gt; This always startles Americans - at first .
Kissing on both cheeks is the traditional French greeting
between old friends.
For their love making, the French prefer privacy, if
available, just as we do.<p>It&#x27;s interesting how the second part goes into &quot;germans are so much nicer than french people&quot;.<p>PS: holy shit I can copy&#x2F;paste from an old picture of a book O_o