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Jul. 16th, 2009 09:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tealinSo ... what was up with Bastille Day this year?
I mean, not in France; obviously there were parades and fireworks and stuff. I mean in the U.S. of A. I never remember this much attention being paid to Bastille Day outside of 'Learning about the culture is just as important as learning the language' bloody useless French class. Did I just never notice it before? Is it a California thing?* Or is it, as I cynically suspect, because we have a new administration and thus it's OK to not hate France anymore so anyone with an international perspective is celebrating this by overcompensating?
*very much doubt this
I mean, not in France; obviously there were parades and fireworks and stuff. I mean in the U.S. of A. I never remember this much attention being paid to Bastille Day outside of 'Learning about the culture is just as important as learning the language' bloody useless French class. Did I just never notice it before? Is it a California thing?* Or is it, as I cynically suspect, because we have a new administration and thus it's OK to not hate France anymore so anyone with an international perspective is celebrating this by overcompensating?
*very much doubt this
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Date: 2009-07-17 12:03 pm (UTC)We like you more too, since you've elected Obama.
By the way, don't say rude things like that about your french class, I'm sure it must have been fascinating ! (hahaaaa, I doubt it)
...And do you really call it "Bastille Day" ? Hahahaha ! It much more the opposite of a Bastille day (poor little prison, all taken by crazy savages from the little people).
HOORAY !
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Date: 2009-07-17 03:14 pm (UTC)Not that, you know, I'm bitter about not being able to speak French or anything ...