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If that were true then I'd be the first person with an IQ of 150 who isn't 
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Oneupon : I was not saying this was my feelings (about strangers, English people, and so on...), I was just trying to explain whet is the general feeling among French people.
As you can see, though there are a lot of french chessplayers on QA, there are not so many who express themselves on the forum...that proves, first, that, as I was saying, most of them are simply not interested, and second, that I am a bit different from them.
As for Gil's advice about "old" and "new" country, may I be a little doubtfull...let's not forget that most of the "new" country's inhabitants killed almost every native of those "new" continents (that, in fact, were as "old" as the others), and their culture, their language, before settling down in their place, robbing all their treasures and lands...isn't it to be called "xenophobia" ?
In the USA, black people are still the poorest, and the immigration laws are even more severe than the french ones.
On the "new" american continent, as it is too on the "new" Australia land, indians, inuits and aborigenes are still parked in special places, and people come to visit them as they would do when visiting a zoo...
I really think that no people is better than another : as we French say "l'homme est un loup pour l'homme" (i.e. "the man is a wolf to the man")...in every part of the world !
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| In the USA, black people are still the poorest, and the immigration laws are even more severe than the french ones. |
Gil seemed to be talking about Europeans. Though it did sound like he was thinking of America.
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Hi there everyone. I hope everyone is fine, and a long time that I have not seen an execelent discussion between people from each edge of the world! (Chess apart, of course  )
Thanks chouia for your answers, you are a very single french, who likes talk and discuss, most of them are very close, I have my onw experience,  !
Well, I have a funny story about the friendship between french and English people, mainly french.
In the middle of 2005, I was wasting my vacation time in Europe as I usually do. And I was with my father and we were at Nice (South of France, close to Monaco) and it was +- 4:25 pm. We were looking for a place where we could have a snack that time, and we found one very nice, a kind of pub/restaurant.. We walked all day and we were almost dying by hungry...
Finally we found, we took a sit and quickly a "waiter" came to serv us. Well, unfortunately, I don't speak French at all, nor my father, So I used my fingers to communicate him what I really wanted, just pointing with the fingers the menu...
I found something very delicious for that time, a "vegetable hamburger" and after my finding I tried to say to him with a frech accent but the accent "vegetable" in French is totally diferent!  from that time he (the waiter) was not anymore polite, clearness!, (perhaps he thought that I and my father were English) because I had pronounced "vegetable" as we say in English (...ble)...
Since that episode I have this question in my mind...Before that I had heard something similar between thier friendship (ENG vs FRA), I did know that it's so hard as I saw!
Anyway, I hope it change, or next time I will go to france with a Brazialian or Norway soccer T-shirt, written "Ronaldinho" or "Carew" in the back ...
Best Wishes my "drugs or droogs??" (From A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess) 
Wagner Amadeus
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| ...a long time that I have not seen an [excellent] discussion... |
Let me know when you find one 
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