The more time I spend in France the more this reality is driven home for me. France is Americanized and Americanizing in so many ways. It breaks my heart and yet it makes me think. Am I a hypocrite?

For example, there are a lot of things that I prefer about France in comparison to the U.S. I prefer the dynamic of the cities. You can walk everywhere, you can take efficient public transportation, there are bakeries all over the place. To name a few. But I, like a lot of French people I talk to, find it so cool because its not my own. They look at the U.S. and find things they prefer and think are novel. The grass is always greener on the other side.

I think the U.S. is really good at advertising our grass whether its greener or not. But is it America that is forcing our culture on other countries or is it, in this case, France that is are forgetting theirs and replacing it with ours? American music is all over French radio, American television series are all over French TV, hamburgers are a phenomenon, the French add in English expressions sometimes when they speak.

Maybe its not a bad thing. Maybe like languages, cultures change over time and you can't cry about, they will always be in continuous evolution. Like "Midnight in Paris", Woody Allen's last film, I know I shouldn't emulate the past because it probably wasn't as green as it seems either. But I just wish there was French music on the radio.