因为是个美国佬写的，所以法国人真的动气了⋯⋯
看Nouvel Obs上热烈的讨论来对比下吧！总长绝对超过《时代》周刊的原文The Death of French Culture！Le Figaro也用了三版的篇幅嚷嚷说：“法国文化没死！”
这场唇枪舌战可以看The Economist的revue de presse，中肯啊！
Americans may be right about the failings of French culture, if by that you mean low-culture. It indeed does not export well abroad. But since that's not what counts as culture, judged from the lofty heights of the Paris left bank, it scarcely matters. Whatever happened to the Death of French Cultural Snobbery, as proclaimed by Nicolas Sarkozy?