Oh God, it's turning into a love-fest
Pol and SR, couldn't agree more about the French, with the exception of a number of Parisians - most of whom aren't originally from Paris anyway I suspect. I've only met a very few French folk I disliked. On the other hand, I work with Americans on a regular basis (from
all over America) and find a large majority to be ill-informed, loud in their opinions and extremely arrogant. I apologise to the few who don't land in that category, I do have a number of good American friends - but then they too cringe when they encounter this particular type. Unfortunately there are rather a lot of them in the industry I work in...
Tend to agree with the fixed grin a bit too. In other areas of my life I deal with tourist types occasionally, and the fixed grin develops every time some foreigner with a vague 2 centuries old Scottish trace of ancestry tries to tell me about my own history... because they're right and I'm wrong
Aye.
Right.
As the saying goes...