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Entry: Learning to Love the French Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/learning_to_love_the_french#12338 Post contents: <iThat is a good way to understand that all of us – Scots-Irish Southerners, Irish Catholics, Franco-Americans, Poles, Italians, Russians and Serbs and Greeks (to add the orthodox), etc. – who are not WASP in ethnicity (and/or nor like the Rockefellers: Germanic Protestants who culturally are largely indistinguishable from WASPs) feel deep loss because we are paying the price for a mess of pottage (America’s wealth) that murdered our birthright. </i> Maybe they should have stayed in their own countries then. Oops, I forgot: they made a mess of them or couldn't be bothered liberating them so they came to a much better run society founded and built by WASPs. But let's not forget the contributions of Ellis Island immigrants to New England. Who really needed town hall democracy and an active local civil political culture when you could have Tammany Hall, voting by clan, and the Mafia. Then there is the ethnic group, strangely missing from Cantrell's rant, that led the anti-WASP movement in academia and gave us all those leftist Hollywood movies. As for anti-French sentiment in 2003, it was pushed by Jonah Goldberg (half Irish of the Catholic kind, half Jewish), Bill O'Reilly (no Mayflower descendants in his family tree), and the bible thumping Southerners who supported George Bush's crusade and just about every other foreign war dating back to WW1. (Of course, some from Dixie will find some laughable way to blame anti-war New England WASPs for the Southern love of bombing and invading other countries! A gold star to the poster with the most creative way of blaming anybody but their fellow "Southrons"). Sent at: 2008 11 23