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@Sebastianus Rex: far from the French being free-spirited individualists (at least in the Anglo-Saxon sense), for good and for ill it is one of the most statist and collectivist nations in the Western world (and probably more than even some non-Western nations too). The French (or a substantial percentage at least) LIKE high taxes, welfare and regulation - when they protest it is usually because the government is trying to take away those things: look how much shit Hollande and Sarkozy got just by trying to raise the state pension age from 60 to 62. One reason why many French people talk disparagingly about 'les Anglo-Saxons' - especially the Americans - is because they view the Anglosphere countries as being too individualistic and market-oriented. And no, France isn't more socially conservative than Anglosphere nations on sexual issues - quite the opposite: it legalised homosexuality two centuries before the likes of Britain, the US and Australia did, and notwithstanding attempts by radfems to change the law it is still more liberal regarding prostitution than the Anglosphere nations too.
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