Re: [pyrnet] Re: Bathing

[JGentzel@aol.com]

In a message dated 11/10/00 10:40:23 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
nixie@mad.scientist.com writes:

<< entirely different attitude toward bathing than we do, in general <lol> >>

I guess this is fairly old and in my opinion an Anglo pseudo superior smug 
view that got started somewhere.  Before anyone thinks that there truly is a 
difference, I would invite them to go with me to the "Sale Barns" some 
Saturday morning here in rural Georgia.   As we walk through the crowd, you 
can testify that the French have no exclusive franchise on bathing practices 
or lack there of.  On the other hand, my friends from France and I have many, 
would be welcome in most homes.  People would be proud and honored to have 
them and detect no problems whatsoever in their hygene or other social 
graces.       

I have been much more offended in France by the "Ugly Americans" we encounter 
there than I have with the hygene of the French people. 

Joe