I'm sorry to say I have to continue on that slightly deprecating-towards-the-US spirit...
Current Reasons that France Rocks:
1. People cry when THEIR two-term president leaves
2. An Inconvenient Truth is third on Virgin's bestselling list, a good portion of tonight's news was spent on SmartCars and other environmentally friendly cars, and one of today's papers published a segment about huge masses of ice melting in the south pole - obviously not great news but at least it's getting blatantly out there
Current Reasons the US doesn't:
1. Today a couple students were turned away from a museum because they were under no circumstances allowed to bring in their laptops, since there could be bombing devices inside and they didn't have a mechanism to check them... We were like "Seriously? We're students." and the guard says, "Well, look what's happened with students in America..."
2. Encouragement of students carrying GUNS with them at all times ON CAMPUS in Utah and Texas?!? WHAT??!
3. Paul Wolfowitz
sigh. I'm sorry. I really do love my country and am excited to go back to it, I just can't ignore the day's events that have made this list.... Please, if anyone reads this, feel more than free to make some counter-comments to make me feel better about where I'm from!! I know the reasons exist, I just can't seem to think of them right now!
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1. Today a couple students were turned away from a museum because they were under no circumstances allowed to bring in their laptops, since there could be bombing devices inside and they didn't have a mechanism to check them... We were like "Seriously? We're students." and the guard says, "Well, look what's happened with students in America..."
To me, that honestly seems like a shortcoming of behalf of the French. A) Why assume that all students are like the very significant minority & B) If you're going to make that assumption and put ridiculous restrictions into place, why not wait until you're prepared to fairly address them. There are plenty of knee-jerk reactions on this side of the Atlantic but that doesn't make them less wrong over there.
2. Encouragement of students carrying GUNS with them at all times ON CAMPUS in Utah and Texas?!? WHAT??!
How about the fact that the number of Universities and academics that encourage students to study abroad and expand their horizons drastically outnumber those calling the sutdent population to arms? LOL There are a few nuts out there who thought #2 sounded good for a half-second but fortunately that ferver seems to have died down... for now... [insert evil laugh here]
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