American hypocrisy consists of thinking that everything is serious; French hypocrisy is to think that nothing is serious.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
The French consider themselves the guardians of the world's culture and do not bother to hide the fact, which is annoying, but Paris is still where good Americans want to go when they die - and Brits, Russians, and Chinese as well, these days.
The French have only negative things to say about everything and everyone.
I feel a little schizophrenic because my life is so totally different from here, obviously. And the French values are so different from American values.
The French are simply incapable of telling the truth.
France will always be France no matter what, but America involves striving toward an ideal.
In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.
The French are very individualistic.
Hypocrisy is the outside of cynicism.
French are what they are without excusing themselves to be.