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"Le politique" _redshift_ July 7 2005, 10:31:53 UTC
Bizarre, j'arrive pas à placer un commentaire chez les "francophiles", donc je le mets ici:
Je peux, bien-sûr, me tromper, mais il me semble que les Français discutent politique aussi souvent et avec le même intérêt que les autres nations. Le point est de tomber dans un bon milieu ou sur une bonne personne. Avec mes connaissances à moi je pouvais en parler sans problèmes.
De toute façon, je crois qu'on peut toujours trouver un ou des forum(s) thématique(s).
Moi personnellement, je ne suis pas Français et j'habites pas en France, mais chez nous en Ukraine les questions politiques sont très d'actualité les derniers temps. Si cela vous dit, on pourrait essayer de chercher des thèmes communs.

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Re: "Le politique" chanteuse July 7 2005, 22:29:59 UTC
Eh
I wrote something in french and it went away.
Basically I am opinionated, but I don't want to offend anyone, and I don't know if the French will take kindly to some American discussing politics with them, even if she is anti-Bush. I am more specifically interested in the french reaction to the European constitution, global warming and the bazillions of problems in Africa. These are all situations that Americans choose to ignore or say very little about, but which I try to follow, and which are closer in many ways to France (well, not global warming).

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Re: "Le politique" _redshift_ July 8 2005, 14:55:28 UTC
I thing generalities never are correct, especially generalities relative to national characters like anti-americanism of French (or Europeans in general), or anti-(pro-) Russian attitude of Ukrainians, or islamic fondamentalism of Arabs. Everywhere one can allways meet reasonable and open-minded people as well as some pid-headed idiots. Question of statistics.
And what about discussing globalization, or prospects for multicultural world, or "colored revolutions" in ex-cumminist countries, or balance between democracy, chaos and totalitarianism, or between market economy and social welfare?

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Re: "Le politique" chanteuse July 10 2005, 21:08:19 UTC
I have an interest in multiple aspects of international politics and enjoy learning and discussing what I do and do not understand or necessarily have knowledge of. Is this the beginning of a discussion about the list you gave me or simply pointing out that I didn't make a list long enough to suit you?

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_redshift_ July 7 2005, 10:42:19 UTC
Maybe I'm too self-confident, but I hope I deserve staying here a moment, instead of "going away" immidiately :). Of course, the final decision is up to you.

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chanteuse July 7 2005, 22:13:15 UTC
heh...
as long as you aren't out to convert me to a religion or specific way of thinking, you can stay. ;-)

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_redshift_ July 8 2005, 14:40:18 UTC
Well, I'm atheist and trying to be tolerant.

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chanteuse July 11 2005, 03:11:49 UTC
what makes you want to be less than tolerant?

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