(July 12, 2015 at 12:21 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: I used to have a French girlfriend who summed up Americans when we came across some by the Arc d triumph.
"Americans are a race of children" she sneered.
She sounds like a keeper. When I was in Europe, I did not like the Americans I met there. I was asked if I was English and was very, very tempted to say "yes" because I did not want to be associated with them. But I told the truth anyway.
Your former girlfriend seems to have had a good understanding of Americans.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
