“Dear US, you have an extraordinary bullying culture that you praise as much as you despise.”
“Dear France, you have an extraordinary avoiding culture that you praise as much as you despise.”
I tweeted that and I kind of feel like it’s damn true. People bully each other a lot here, the cause being good or bad doesn’t matter, people truly enjoy going at it, going after it. Like American football. In France it’s more like the opposite where people avoid confrontation a lot more because it’s kind of stupid, the outcome is never good. Like European football. The problem though is that at some point, it explodes and it explodes big time. And we’re all very conscious about it. US folks denounce bullying all the time and French people often criticize the lack of action, pointing at the terrible inertia. Yet, we continue.
Just observing our cultural patterns and paradoxes.