FREE ESSAY ON SEDUCING THE FRENCH

SEDUCING THE FRENCH

Charles Law
As I sit outside my favorite cafe, drinking wine as the sun slowly dies off into the
twilight of dusk, I hear the most obnoxious noise. It is a few teenagers trying to speak
their best English. I watch them for a few minutes, and I am disgusted. If these children
represent the future, I weep.
I see a whole generation with no direction, no true love of their beautiful country, no
nationalism in them. Instead they wear blue jeans, and drink that despicable liquid
called 'Coca-Cola'. These younger generations are imitating a society across an ocean. I
see restaurants grilling up American cuisine's and California wines. Youths are wearing
American brand clothing, and traveling to America to tour their commercialism empire. Why
are they doing this? Simple, Americanization.
Americanization is happening all around us, not just to our children who are emptying
into the streets speaking with their best James Dean. American thought has crept into our
very lives with everything we do; our day to day routine is now being controlled by
American ideals.
Every French citizen is falling into the clutches of consumerism and conformity. We are
turning into a trinket society, worshipping of a mammon, and witnessing to the death of
our beloved culture. I shed a tear to think we are turning into a materialistic society
like that of America where as whose society is dynamic and derived from consumer-driven
economic growth. In falling into consumerism we are generating an endless increase of
desires that can not b satisfied by the means that which we live in France. This
lifestyle alienates the consumer to form bondage around them; it does not free them. The
society in America is of destruction, not to be to be idolized. The waste of their mass
consumption not only drains their national resources but those of deprived countries as
well.
Our on consumption does not stop with the cafe's or the stores where we buy our food, but
goes deeper into our society. American business has taken away our identity buying trying
to get onto our economy and setting the standard for us. America is crawling into our
society not only by food and movies but also through our economy, and businesses. Look at
Frigidaire, Remington Rand-France and Simca, all three of them are foreign owned, or
actually U.S. owned and two of them received massive layoffs, without notice, with no
help in finding another job. We need to curb this foreign investment of French businesses
and economy, it is our economy, let us control it. We should be weary of American
investors, they are so big and overwhelming to our homeland producer's competition is
impossible. As America comes into France and takes over the manufacturing industry they
are helping our economic growth. The size of these companies are so enormous that their
ability to sustain economic depression is in not question. The question should be, with
America's ability to produce money and buy each other out buy ruthless takeovers
acquiring 51% of their stock, what happens when companies get bought out? Then what, as
we have learned from past American companies, lay-off's happen without a thought to the
employee. We are not looking to get rid of foreigners, or what they bring to the table,
what I think we should look to do is control. I believe that we need to regulate and
control the availability of investments to Americans'. 
It is in America's best interest to take over French industry, and control its industry.
They are afraid of us as a super power. They wish to control all our industry including
those for our national defense so the can sit don and tell us what to do from a boardroom
across the Atlantic. The overseers of the French population, those who across the ocean
and say they do everything with a clear conscience have since barred an important
technology from coming to France. These high tech products would help with our national
defense, in the nuclear arms race, but America would fear us too much so they keep us in
the dark to protect themselves from a country that can live without a dying passion to
consume every little gadget offered on the television.
Besides government control we must be wary of the foreign investment we have allowed
ourselves to become engaged in. The total stock of foreign investment in France's
economy, which is into the several billion-dollar categories, over half of that is,
controlled by American investment firms. The most eye-popping and worrisome aspect of the
whole event is that most of the money is invested into manufacturing. Investment that
started off with the larger companies: IBM, Standard Oil-Esso, and GM. The investments
that are the ones to watch are the smaller and medium size firms. To add salt to the
wound American subsidiaries borrowed capital from French banks to finance their
expansion.
What happens when America goes into a recession, do you think they will keep up with
their overseas investments? No, certainly not, they will tuck tail and run, trying to
salvage what is left of their careers. They will ante up to the ego-centric's of a
consumer's economy, they will take care of themselves first, in America and what is left,
they will save it up for future holding to build their empire to the great status of the
Rockefeller's. They have the ability to crush the European Community market with
lay-offs, closing plants, management changes, industrialization and modernization. They
hold no obeisance for their people that feed their children an ocean away.
America has come into the European market, not just the French market, and completely
dominated everything. America's big business makes more money then small countries, and
dwarfs any and all European companies that compete with them. I would have to agree with
Maurice Deverger in the need to look for European solutions, as a way to help out our
struggling home companies, not just let the U.S. come in and throw endless piles of cash
at them. In controlling the firms that are powered by western funds, we can control our
own economy and essentially our own destiny.
We have become so subservient of American society, culture, and money and finance that we
have forgotten who we are. We need to become a more nationalistic society to help
preserve our own culture, and no assimilate to the culture that breathes cheeseburgers,
and feeds it's intellect not from museums and the renaissance's but from the television.
This Americanization of values and idea's is going to strip us of our uniqueness in the
European community. If England and the rest of them want to invite the Americans over for
tea that's just fine, but lets have them beg for our attention. If they to control our
economy, let us control their culture, their minds idea's thoughts and value's. Let us be
the ones who infect them, rather then they, let us bestow our culture and values upon
them, and that in turn will turn around their investments, their capital gains and stock
market controlled funds to a more secure business that we are more accustom to deal with.
Let them come to us for assurance and culture. This will be the only way to turn our
economy back into controlling hands of the just and right, to the hands of the natural
born leaders of this not only this continent we call Europe, but the natural born leaders
of this home we call earth.
As we look at this sizable intrusion into our national stock, we should see it as a
threat to our way of life. A country of consumers and laziness is taking over our economy
and using it as capital on the world wide market, we are one of the most Powerful
countries in all the world. France offers culture where America offers stagnation. We are
sophisticated with great cities and much to add to the continuing humanity and the
American's will just take everything for them and not offer us a table scrap. America
will continue to reap the world for it's own benefits, take more statues and then simply
send their children to us for history lessons, because all we are to them is a tourist
attraction.
Bibliography
Seducing the French-Richard Kuisel, University of California Press 1993