It's so funny some of the statements made in this thread. The french are like this the french say the americans are like that...my favourite was that most europeans don't have cars. Next you're going to say that european women don't shave their armpits, right?
I don't think of americans as fat. I know there is an obesity problem supposedly going on, but I'd say it's more a western civilization problem than american. But of course, because fast food is an american concept, of course that's where most of the attention is focused on. I also don't think of the french as lazy. I've known plenty of hardworking french people. But I know the USA and France have an ongoing spat so this thread doesn't surprise me...
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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