Just from my personal experience from visiting France--the young Parisans were very rude. Here I was, a young American girl just trying to study a Humanities course there, and they were just ugly to me. Now, I found the elderly people and middle-aged people outside of Paris (namely Dijon) quite polite. Maybe its just a genteration mentaility. The leaders and youth of urban France--without a doubt the loudest voices over there--are very anti-American weasles.
Sonhaven, I'd love to hear the points the Gulf War veteran made to you. You might want to post them on a more relavent topic so, but I'll check them all to see what he had to say. I had a favorite uncle in the Navy during the Gulf War and it has been hinted that he might be going to Iraq in the next few months.
