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...Another possible repercussion: a reexamination of the freewheeling, free-market practices - what the French like to call "Anglo-Saxon capitalism" - that led to this crisis. French President Nicolas Sarkozy kicked off that debate as Wall Street was reeling from the collapse of Lehman Brothers and Congress was first debating the bailout package. In a speech in Toulon on Sept. 25, he said the crisis marked "the end of a world that was built on the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War - a big dream of liberty and prosperity." As for capitalism, he called...
France has long liked to see itself as the other, non-American model for organizing a modern economy, with a rich tradition of exalting the state and disdaining "Anglo-Saxon"-style capitalism. So it would be completely de rigueur for the French to smile smugly over Washington's French-style intervention in the financial markets. But by and large, they're not. For however suddenly the U.S. government has embraced the Gallic tradition of nationalization, the French economy has itself been slowly and surely becoming très américaine. As a result, the impulse to utter "I told...
...Even today, Asterix stories seem to chime with the country's discomfort with globalization as it rails at the hegemonic power of the day, be it Roman imperialism or Anglo-Saxon capitalism. Commentators refer to France's 'Asterix syndrome', a tendency to withdraw from the rest of the world, yet rejoice in splendid isolation...
...like cold, rainy weather, you’ll no doubt enjoy Cambridge, MA. Yet there’s something decidedly refreshing about shelling out major cash to experience the dreariness 3,000 miles away. Hit up this self-governing Crown dependency and enjoy some splendid Anglo-Saxon...
...enjoyed reading the cover story on the demise of French culture [Dec. 3]. But there are plenty of emerging French artists, especially on the pop- and dance-music scene: David Guetta and Bob Sinclar both released international hit songs this year, albeit with Anglo-Saxon singers. Over the past 10 years, electronic groups from France such as Daft Punk (whom Kanye West sampled on his recent hit Stronger) and Air have met with similar success. French rap is thriving too - in fact, the rap market in France is the second biggest after the U.S. Graham Clark, KEIGHLEY, ENGLAND...