Originally posted by centurion1211
reply to post by The Godfather of Conspira
Ignorance? Hardly.
So now I'll ask you this time, then why are the french using all those American products? Obviously, no one is forcing them to. They are choosing to do so of their own free will. They must have what seems like a good reason (to them) for doing so. Sounds like some people here still have those BS ideas that led to french laws making it illegal for foreign words to "creep" into the french language.
Sorry comrade, but there's some ignorance still around there methinks.
In France American products are essentially CULTURAL : in supermarket almost 100% of foods, drinks and furnitures of sorts are home made. More and more UE, of course.
Except for Ford cars : crowd of fiesta in little cities
. Some 4x4 in big town also. (lol again...) The cultural point is easy to understand, and if you digg the above quoted Stay Behind, Ford Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation, you'll quickly discover that France was, and still is for some reason, the first wargame place where US placed all kind of cultural and secret agents aimed to infiltrate unions, highschools, universities and administration just to counter-attack against the Communist influence (keep in mind that the French Communist Party still exists).
The case of the EHESS (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales) is a parangon : the school, that's still the most influencial social university and research center in France, was almost entirely founded by Ford (mostly) and Rockefeller Foundation. The goal was to install a kind of big pro-West think tank in the heart of the french capital, and heck it worked : still now you have many ancient or so called lefty "intellectuals" that support largely the Neocons, specially on such bs as Irak wars or the so-called War on Terror (ah Ossama that good friend from Carlyle...).
The *best thing* was that the EHESS practically destroyed the leadership that had the very ancient, and very french, EPHE, from which it was supposed to come, - a school where used to work guys like Levi-Strauss, Mircea Eliade, Georges Dumezil, Emile Durkheim and so on.
Of coursely EHESS (note this strange name
) saw all its main programs oriented american/western culture. As for the media, i've grown up with craps like Magnum, Dallas, SantaBarbara, all sort of "Marvels", Mickey Mouse and Donald Ducks flooding libraries, what do I know (never really watched those so sad things - sorry for their ATS lovers - cultural gap probably... you name it). The same for movies, where all blockbusters still plays in most theater untill today (fortunately France found a way to make money from it to finance its own cinema - another french invetion, by the way)
Oh, and U.S. wines have started to beat french wines in blind taste tests - with french judges.
Same thing : pure BS, just like those pseudo Dentist Associations that claims to promote this or that brand of chewing-gum, and which are all made up by the very firms who produce those aspartamy chews.
Pure lobbying... à la Ricaine !
Edit : some stuff above and : Big Kudos to french supporters here, specially about history of US. Kudos and Rigel's Légion d'Honneur !
[edit on 25-7-2008 by Rigel]
and very sad ...
