Did you think that since the Iraqi war, France and the US had nothing in common anymore?
Far from that.
A well-known business editor (from Time Magazine) even describes the current US economic reforms as a transformation into the United States of France!
Don't laugh (or don't cry either), this could be serious.
I am grateful to the French Bashing Monitor for highlighting this Bill Sapporito's article.
However, I do not agree with the FBM's interpretation of the paper. Keep cool!
Far from thinking that it is just another peace of "Anti-French slur", I take Sapporito's article as a fine humoristic piece... with a lot of truth in it.
This makes me smile, and think that since the current financial crisis, US economy and French economy have never been so similar indeed!!!
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A Frenchman: “An Italian in a bad mood” (J. Cocteau)
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Thank you for this post.
A new page in US/French history?