[Info-vax] OT actors being treated as their screen character Was: Re: Nice

[Paul Sture]

On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 16:04:05 -0500, Bob Koehler wrote:

> In article <9vddf9-5e31.ln1 at news1.chingola.ch>, Paul Sture
> <paul at sture.ch> writes:
>> 
>> It made me realise that those of us whose countries weren't occupied
>> don't fully understand what occupied countries went through.
> 
>    I've heard stories about French complaining that American tourists
>    act like the French still owe us for coming to thier rescue.

The British don't take kindly to that either.  Certain Hollywood 
interpretations grated on my parents' generation.

>    I've head stories about French critcizing anyone who uses thier forks
>    concave side up.

I'm pretty sure that is a British thing, not a French one.  And yes, when 
I lived in France I used to delight in irritating my mother by using 
French table manners in front of her :-)

>    But I look at what France actually does, and I see they know there is
>    a reason thier government made certain cemetaries legally US soil.

I never saw any of the ones in France but I did visit one in Holland.  It 
was a very moving experience.

>    Except for three attacks, killing a total of a few thousand people,
>    Americans haven't had a war on out own soil since the 1880s.  Most of
>    us don't know what it's all about.

Indeed.

-- 
Paul Sture