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It wasn't until after the French Revolution that American conservatives began to turn on the French. In 1815, Cyrus King, a Massachusetts Federalist, opposed the government's acquisition of Thomas Jefferson's library because it included the irreligious, immoral and seditious works of French philosophers, which were written in a language that "many cannot read and most ought not."

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Apparently we come by our own traits, that of being defined as "not American," honestly:

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But Francophobia has never been an essential trait of American national identity the way it has for the British, who would hardly know who they were if France should suddenly sink into the Atlantic.

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And, uh, honest question alert: I've been living in my igloo for a long time and in the last little while I've started to come across igloo paintings with little pictographs about the "culture wars" with, it seems like, increasing frequency. What makes it really odd is that I'm the only one that lives in my igloo so, as you can understand, this is very worrisome.