The other day we were having a lively conversation about stereotypes when my teacher and classmates all said "We love Americans". Now, mind you, my classmates are a French couple and of course, my teacher is Italian. I wasn't all that surprised by my teacher's response but I was shocked at the French couple. The couple flat out said "your country saved us." Wow, it was so good to hear that. So often we hear "the French don't appreciate what we did for them". This couple couldn't have been more convincing to the contrary. The French couple confirmed that Parisians are "special" and even the French people aren't crazy about them :-)
I also thought it interesting that the Italian teacher said "My name is Maria but when my mother named me she fully intended that I would be called "Mary" because of her love of the Americans". By the way, these three people were all in their late 60s so they were born right after WWII ended.
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