Bebe Jacques Whines And Weeps Into His Chablis -- In Vietnam

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D. Spencer Hines

Bebe Jacques Whines And Weeps Into His Chablis -- In Vietnam

Legg inn av D. Spencer Hines » 08 okt 2004 00:48:27

It just doesn't get any better than this, Virginia.

Rule Britannia.

DSH
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"Chirac lashes out against US cultural domination"

Thu Oct 07 2004

"French President Jacques Chirac warned Thursday of a "catastrophe" for
global diversity if the United States' cultural hegemony goes
unchallenged.

Speaking at a French cultural center in Hanoi ahead of Friday's opening
of a summit of European and Asian leaders, Chirac said France was right
to stand up for cultural and linguistic diversity.

The outspoken French president warned that the world's different
cultures could be "choked" by US values.

This, he said, would lead to a "general world sub-culture" based around
the English language, which would be "a real ecological catastrophe".

Citing Hollywood's stranglehold over the film industry as an example,
Chirac stressed that only with government assistance could countries
maintain their cultural heritage.

Vietnam is a former French colony, but only around 375,000 of its 81
million people speak French. English is considered by most people a far
more valuable and practical second language, particularly among
businessmen."

Matt Drudge
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Hilarious!

Let them, the French, eat cake!

"The final happiness of man consists in the contemplation of truth....
This is sought for its own sake, and is directed to no other end beyond
itself." Saint Thomas Aquinas, [1224/5-1274] "Summa Contra Gentiles"
[c.1258-1264]

"Populus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur. Odi profanum vulgus et arceo."

Quintus Aurelius Stultus [33 B.C. - 42 A.D.]

Prosecutio stultitiae est gravis vexatio, executio stultitiae coronat
opus.

'Nuff Said.

D. Spencer Hines

Lux et Veritas et Libertas

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