Anglo-French Differences

Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 276, 22 November 1935, Page 6

Anglo-French Differences

There arc possibly no two races that experience greater difficulty in understanding .one another than the English and the French, asserts Mr. Luff Cooper in his biography of Lari Haig. No few miles of salt water in the world have exercised so estranging an influence as the Straits of Lover. There is no natural antipathy between the races, nor did at! the centuries of warfare ever breed a spirit of hatred; there is only a complete failure of mutual comprehension. They approach every problem from a different standpoint, and if they arrive at the same conclusion, they reach it by different roads.

And perhaps the key to the enigma lies in the fact that the one quality they have in common is a deep-seated arrogance, which is too confident to breed boasting, but which at the bottom of the hearts of the inhabitants of both these countries assures them that they are superior to any other people on the earth. Hence they will make no effort to understand foreigners from whom they can have nothing to learn, and the Englishman can never be persuaded that there is not something slightly comic about a Frenchman, and the Frenchman reme l convinced that the average Englishman is a fool

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