Understanding France is written by an American ex-pat in Paris, and comes recommended by several ex-pats.
The site answers all sorts of naive questions us Americans have about the country and its culture:
Are the French anti-American?
No, they’re pro-French! [**]
I sympathize. But then I grew up in Dallas and was shocked to learn, when I left home, that not everyone loves the Cowboys either.
*: as in living overseas, not event-driven XML parsing.
**: there are universals, of course, I’m not a damned relativist. For example, all civilized people agree that the New York Yankees are evil.
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