After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There is a certain dignity to being French.
The French are very individualistic.
The French are very bizarre. There is this collective depiction: 'We're in decline, we're being assailed, we must protect ourselves.'
We, the French, are viscerally attached to our laicite, our sovereignty, our independence, our values. The world knows that when France is attacked, it is liberty that is dealt a blow.
France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of the French right and the French left. They keep thinking that Americans are primitive cowboys or farmers who do not understand anything.
Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere.
The French complain of everything, and always.
French citizenship should be either inherited or merited.
French are what they are without excusing themselves to be.
I do consider myself as being French, I suppose.