[lloeki]

> bread, wine, holidays, hospitals

Those are indeed part of our culture yet what I care the most in our heritage are the values underpinning our culture: humanism, Enlightenment, scientists, authors, and artists who made massive discoveries and progress, the declaration of human rights, abolition of death penalty, the hard stance publicly taken at th UN against the Iraq war and not bending over in front of the US when basically every other country was submissive and mute about it, everyday people becoming members of the Resistance who kept on actively and passively fighting in the shadows against an unfathomable body of hate, laying ground for the foundation of the EU and collaborating towards a more balanced, non-bipolar world...

Those are the values that underpin my pride of France. Unfortunately I witness everything about that being slowly eroded away by a growing feeling of fear and self-interest, and an increasing number of people indulging in the very hate we fought against. Of that I am not proud of being French.