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Originally Posted by Laridae
It would be so much easier to follow if people would specify their country in their info so we could quickly see where they were "coming from", instead of having to infer it from their comments.
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Why, though? It would allow for quicker stereoptyping, but it's a little inaccurate. It's less slippery to look at someone's opinion as just that person's view instead of dumping them in the "Oh, they're American, no wonder." or "Oh, they are from Scandinavia, uh-huh." boxes. It's too sweeping a generalization.
Just looking at my country, here in Germany we have everything, from the nationalist parties to leftovers from the East German communists (the latter even made it into the parliament, the former haven't in a while), with all sorts of political views in between. And then there are confusing people like me whose political views tend to be highly contextual and can't easily be generalized.
I felt that we were mostly discussing a more general topic, not the French situation specifically: The economical impact of multinational, or otherwise huge, chain businesses on local stores, and the question whether governments should interfere on behalf of the local and regional businesses. I'm not actually sure one has to be on either side of the center to agree or disagree with this approach. It doesn't surprise me that both the French left and right agreed on this.