{"id":39083,"date":"2004-06-01T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-01T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2004\/06\/01\/french-schoolchildren-invited-to-draw-their-impressions-of-the-united-states\/"},"modified":"2004-06-01T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-06-01T07:00:00","slug":"french-schoolchildren-invited-to-draw-their-impressions-of-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20040601-00\/?p=39083","title":{"rendered":"French schoolchildren invited to draw their impressions of the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They choose fast food, fat people, and Bush in a tank.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"q\"><p>  In January, a cartoon festival was held in the town of Carquefou,  just outside of Nantes in the northwest corner of France.  <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/opinion\/162066_focus29.html\">  Students of all ages competed in a contest to illustrate their vision  of the United States<\/a>.  They drew obese Americans devouring Coca-Cola and McDonald&#8217;s hamburgers.  They drew the Statue of Liberty with fangs or in chains or  being run over by a wicked Uncle Sam on a motorcycle.  And they drew George W. Bush:  Bush riding a tank to war;  Bush taking over the world;  Bush as a liar;  Bush as a monster.   <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>  (I love  <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/photos\/photo.asp?PhotoID=37234\">  the drawing of ravenous overweight superheroes<\/a>.)\n  The French image of the United States as the land of hamburgers and  obesity extends beyond the minds of schoolchildren.  It&#8217;s also  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allmovieportal.com\/mp\/2003_the_triplets_of_belleville_013.html\">  one of the salient features of  &#8220;Belleville&#8221;<\/a> (a thinly-disguised New York City) in the  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oscar.com\/nominees\/nom_33057.html\">  Academy Award-Nominated animated film<\/a>  <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonyclassics.com\/triplets\/\">The  Triplets of Belleville<\/a><\/i>.  (Note: I saw <i>Triplets<\/i> and found it unsatisfying.)<\/p>\n<p>  (In another case of blog synchrony,  <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.asp.net\/ericgu\/archive\/2004\/05\/27\/143423.aspx\">  Eric Gunnerson discussed the frustrating trend of &#8220;size inflation&#8221;<\/a>.)  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They choose fast food, fat people, and Bush in a tank. In January, a cartoon festival was held in the town of Carquefou, just outside of Nantes in the northwest corner of France. Students of all ages competed in a contest to illustrate their vision of the United States. They drew obese Americans devouring Coca-Cola [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-39083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>They choose fast food, fat people, and Bush in a tank. In January, a cartoon festival was held in the town of Carquefou, just outside of Nantes in the northwest corner of France. Students of all ages competed in a contest to illustrate their vision of the United States. They drew obese Americans devouring Coca-Cola [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}