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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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Re: Enjoying the tennis match...
Date: 2009-07-21 11:19 am (UTC)Then yes, we learn at school that the american soldiers came and helped delivering France in 1945 (we're not ungrateful brats), and they have ceremonies every year on the beaches of Normandie to commemorate them.
Then again, I didn't even know we had sold stuff to Iraq, bad idea alright, but you went and killed them all ;)
I have members of my family who would be more on arepublican side too I guess. I just disagree with them sometimes, but still love them (kinda) ;)
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