By Richard F. Kuisel
There are over 1,000 McDonald's on French soil. Disney subject parks have opened close to Paris within the final twenty years. And American-inspired vocabulary resembling "le weekend" has been absorbed into the French language. yet as former French president Jacques Chirac positioned it: "The U.S. unearths France unbearably pretentious. And we discover the U.S. unbearably hegemonic." Are the French involved or threatened by way of the United States? They Americanize but are infamous for expressions of anti-Americanism. From McDonald's and Coca-Cola to unfastened markets and overseas coverage, this booklet seems heavily on the conflicts and contradictions of France's courting to American politics and tradition. Richard Kuisel indicates how the French have used the US as either yardstick and foil to degree their very own particular nationwide id. They ask: how will we be sleek just like the americans with no changing into like them?
France has charted its personal direction: it has welcomed America's items yet rejected American guidelines; assailed America's "jungle capitalism" whereas liberalizing its personal economic system; attacked "Reaganomics'" whereas protecting French social safety; and guarded French cinema, tv, meals, and language even whereas American popular culture. Kuisel examines France's position as an self sustaining best friend of the United States--in the reunification of Germany and in army involvement within the Persian Gulf and Bosnia--but he additionally considers the country's disasters in influencing the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton administrations. no matter if investigating France's winning details expertise region or its spurning of yankee services through the AIDS epidemic, Kuisel asks if this insistence on a French method represents a becoming distance among Europe and the us or a response to American globalization.
Exploring cultural developments, values, public opinion, and political truth, The French Way delves into the advanced courting among smooth nations.
About the Author
Richard F. Kuisel holds a joint appointment on the BMW middle for German and eu reports and within the historical past division at Georgetown college. His books comprise "Seducing the French: The issue of Americanization"
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