I personally dont have any beef with the french and find the US/France rivalry funny as hell. My grandfather who fought in Europe finds it not so funny. Politics aside, they've been dicks to american tourists for decades. Not just recently. They can be dicks if they want as long as they keep exporting cognac.
I would love to visit France...it's a beutiful country. I would not live there however.
One interesting thing I've noticed about living in manila is there are many x-pats from many countries. It seems like all can co-mingle quite well but the french x-pats dont talk to other people, just eachother. Just what Ive noticed so far. I'm sure that's not uniform.
side note: this one french guy owns a harley davidson themed bar called "handlebar"....it's odd. But the funniest thing is the menu calls french fries "freedom fries"
