With respect to the respective French and German traditions you are no doubt correct, although I am reluctant to see individual achievement reduced to archetypes.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
French are what they are without excusing themselves to be.
The French, I think, in general, are strangely prolix in their natural history.
You know how arrogant the French are - extraordinary.
In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?
The French have the reputation of being arrogant. I don't think it's arrogance but a certain authenticity.
You get the feeling that many of my guests feel that the French language gives them entry into a more cultivated, more intelligent world, more highly civilised too, with rules.
I do consider myself as being French, I suppose.
French citizenship should be either inherited or merited.
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.
The French are very individualistic.