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The Nobel Prize has been awarded since 1901 for contributions in Physics, Chemistry, Medicine and Physiology, Literature and the Advancement of Peace. The prizes are awarded irrespective of nationality, race or creed. From 1901 to 1939, the Nobel Prize has been awarded to 203 individuals. The United States won 25. The French won 28. The only person who has ever been awarded the Nobel Prize twice was Mme Marie Curie.

  29. "The French are always criticizing. Nothing is right everything has something wrong with it."
That sounds as though the French are like us. We Americans are always griping about something. We're never satisfied. We criticize our allies, our government, our army, our police, our politicians, our business leaders, our union leaders, our schools, our taxes, etc., etc. We are very proud of our right to criticize. As people in a democracy, we demand the right to criticize whatever we want, at any time, on any issue. The French, too, have a very strong individualistic, democratic tradition. Beware the people who do not criticize. Beware the country where criticism is verboten. Beware the country where men obey like sheep.

  30. "All the French want is a good time. That's all they think about in Paris."
 If you judge the French by those you see on the Champs Elysees or in Montmartre, you are making the same mistake that was made by the tourist who visited the House of David and asked "Why don't Americans shave?"  Paris is not France, any more than 52nd (sic) Street is America. Paris has for several hundred years been one of the great tourist attractions of the world. As a matter of fact, the French have much 1688 of the "having a good time" habit than we do. The average French family ordinarily spends less on pleasure in a month than we do on a week-end. The French reputation for gaiety was built on the fame of Paris as a gay city and on the French way of doing things. The French theater was always bright and varied. Paris' cabarets and music halls were famed throughout the world. But there are about 35 million Frenchmen who do not live in Paris.

31. "The French are insincere; it is an inborn trait with them."
There are no "inborn traits" which account for the social characteristics or customs of a people. The entire body of scientific anthropology proves this. A French child, of French descent, will react like an American if that child is raised in an American home in an American town. The same goes for a child of any other nationality, color or creed. To talk about "inborn traits" is talk just as the Nazis did when they talked about "good" or "bad" blood. It just does not jibe with fact or science. To say that the French are insincere is no more sensible than to say that Bostonians have an "inborn trait" for baked beans, or that Brooklynites have an "inborn trait" for throwing pop bottles at the umpire. Are the French "insincere" ? The way to answer this intelligently is to define insincerity, analyze the number of Frenchmen who show these characteristics, compare this number to the number of Frenchmen who do not show these characteristics; get the relative proportions between the two groups, then compare the proportions to a similar analysis of the "insincerity" of other nations, including the Papuans.

32. "The French just don't care about anything, They've even got a phrase for it - laissez-faire. That means why bother? Just let everything alone!"
"Laissez-faire" is the name for a philosophy of economics. It means "let alone" - let the economy run by itself, by the laws of supply and demand, without governmental interference or protection. The whole system we call capitalism, or free enterprise, rests on the idea of laissez-faire.

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