【 Quora 】:有哪些在法国可以，在美国不可以的？ [美国媒体]

What are some things you can do in France but not in the USA?

【 Quora 】:有哪些在法国可以，在美国不可以的？



In France if you are gay you are protected by strong gay-friendly laws (contrarily to many US states eg. Utah, Arizona, Alabama, Texas etc...where gays are disadvantaged or persecuted by law) and you can marry same-sex partner.
In France you are protected by a Constitution that your Government must 100% respect 100% of the cases: NO institutionalized exceptions to the Constitution, NO secret laws, NO secret juries ruling under the exception of  "War on communism" or "Crusade on terrorism" or"Fight against the Japs" or "War on Saddam" or "War on Drugs" or "fight against traitors to the Nation" or "Crusade on Evil Forces"...
In France you are protected by strong privacy protection laws which -contrarily to the US- also apply to YOU
...these laws indeed apply to ANYONE (eg. not only apply to French citizens but also to you if you come to France and your passport is non-french) and in any situation. In USA if you are not US citizen or if you are not a good american you are fully naked here.
In France you are protected by serious gun-control laws and anti-proliferation arms laws so this is not like you have guns in every hands everywhere (more than cars) and this is not like everyone (individuals, lobbies, your government) is pushing for arm proliferation at home, in your country and on earth. In France people believe weapons are bad not good.

在法国，如果你是同性恋，你就会受到严格的同性恋法律保护(美国的许多州相反)。美国的犹他，亚利桑那，阿拉巴马，德克萨斯等州…同性恋者在法律上处于不利地位或容易受到迫害。在法国，你可以和同性伴侣结婚。
在法国，你受到宪法的保护,政府必须 100%尊重你的案例:宪法没有制度的例外,没有秘密的法律,没有秘密陪审团裁决，但除了“对抗cp主义战争”或“反恐运动”或“抗击日本鬼子”或“萨达姆战争”或“毒品战争”或“对抗国家的叛徒”或“邪恶的十字军东征”……
在法国，你受到严格的隐私保护法的保护，而这些法律在美国则相反——无法保护你。
这些法律可以适用于任何人。不仅适用于法国公民，而且如果你来法国，你的护照是非法语的，也在任何情况下都适用。在美国，如果你不是美国公民，或者你不是一个生活好的美国人，你就在这里仿若裸体。
在法国你受到严格的枪支管理法律和武器防扩散法律的保护，人们不喜欢有人在每个手上都有枪，无处不在(甚至超过汽车),不希望每个人(个人、游说集团，政府)在推动武器扩散到你的家里,你的国家，你的星球。在法国，人们认为武器不好。

In France it is possible to NOT endure any of all those...
...boring speeches where the President would sing out loud that your country is elected by God, that "Exceptionalism" is what defines us, that France has a mission on earth that makes it "Special" or that the world expects us to bring the Good to others etc. This does not exist in France since Napoleon, since then our leaders are done with such mystic verbiage.
In France you can have a President who does not believe in God equally as one who does.
In France you can have a President who is not Protestant.
In France you have the freedom to chose among wide political choices and parties including communist and nationalist parties [Even after WWII]
In France your grand-father can explain how much he was arguing with communists...while in the US your grand-father vaguely remembers a witch hunt...
In France you enjoy top-level free education and free healthcare that do not exist in US
In France you learn in state school history class that in reality Russia (not US) did save the world during WWII
In France you can learn in classroom the pros and cons and the certainties and doubts about the first atomic bomb dropped on innocent civilians. Not just the myth.
In France you can learn in class that your colonial past was made of horrible mistakes so kids in France are advised that colonialism and interventionism practices are often ill-motived (resources exploitation) and dangerous (wars)

在法国，不可能忍受这些……
…无聊的演讲,总统会大声唱出来,你的国家是由上帝选择的,“美国例外论”是如何定义了我们。在地球上,自拿破仑起，自我们的领导人起，我们都不会听到如此的废话：法国有一个使命,我们是“特殊”的或世界期望我们把好东西带给他人等。
在法国，你可以有一个不信仰上帝的总统。
在法国，你可以有一个不是新教徒的总统。
在法国，你可以自由广泛的选择政治信仰，包括共产主义和民族主义(甚至在二战后)
在法国，你的祖父可以解释他和共产主义者争论的多么激烈……而在美国，你的祖父还依稀记得某个政治迫害……
在法国，我们享受着顶级的免费教育和免费医疗保健。
在法国，你可以在公立学校历史课上学到，实际上俄罗斯(而不是美国)在二战期间拯救了世界。
在法国，你可以在课堂上学习正反两方面的知识，以及对第一颗原子弹轰炸无辜平民的肯定和怀疑。这是真的。
在法国，你可以在课堂上了解到，你的殖民历史是由某些可怕的错误造成的，因此法国的孩子们被告知殖民主义和干涉主义的做法往往是错误的(资源掠夺)和危险的(导致战争)。

Everyone in France is protected against GMOs thanks to a ban on GMO food and a ban on GMO agriculture
The French are very protected by detailed labeling on food
In France you can buy (and even eat) non-pasteurized cheese and all sort of non neutral food (AKA all smelling and disgusting food)
You can easily avoid obesity
You can attend a bullfight (corrida)
You can buy Foie Gras
You can play violent games without a helmet (rugby)
You can have a sport career without routinely using dangerous substances
You can visit a building older than Grand Ma or a museum
You can see well-dressed people
In France you can speak english with a strong accent...and still not be automatically perceived as a retard or a hopeless immigrant or someone whom you assume he hopes he will get a chance in the next lottery for a green card and for the American Dream.
In France it can be that you just don't care about your bad english accent (and you might not want to work your bad english accent because you are not American anyway and you cherish your life and your french lifestyle with rolling R's and Americans should really improve their pronunciation of R's anyway)
In France, you can speak french :-)

由于禁止转基因食品和转基因农业，法国的每个人都得到保护。
法国人要求食物得到详细标注。
在法国，你可以买(甚至吃)未经高温消毒的奶酪和各种非中性的食物(也就是所有的气味和恶心的食物)
你可以很容易地避免肥胖。
你可以参加斗牛。
你可以买鹅肝酱。
你可以不戴头盔玩暴力游戏(橄榄球)。
你可以不需要使用兴奋剂下，从事体育事业。
你可以参观一座比你外婆或博物馆更古老的建筑。
你可以看到衣着讲究的人。
在法国你可以英语口音很重……而且不会被看作是一个白痴，一个无望的移民，或者一个幻想在下次获得绿卡（这和中彩票一样难）和美国梦的人。
在法国你可以不关心你的糟糕的英语口音
在法国，你会说法语:-)

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You can get an excellent and very affordable public education for your children from pretty much anywhere in France.  You will get a far superior education from Lycée Louis-le-Grand and the école Normale Supérieure d'Ulm than from Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT, Stanford, and Caltech, a if you're clever enough to get in. You can also study medicine in France and become a doctor without having to go hundreds of thousands of dollars or euros in debt.

在法国的任何地方，你都可以为你的孩子们提供一个非常好的、非常实惠的公共教育。你将会得到一份远高于哈佛、耶鲁、普林斯顿、麻省理工、斯坦福、加州理工学院的高等教育，如果你够聪明的话。你也可以在法国学习医学，成为一名医生，不必承受数十万美元或欧元的债务。

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Take a fast train service between any two cities in the country, some of them running at up to 300km/h (186mph)
Board an aeroplane without taking your shoes off, let alone having your body scanned
Drive to any of 9 foreign countries - most of them not requiring a passport at the border
Marry a member of the same sex, and have the marriage recognised everywhere in the country
Enjoy a wide range of rights related to work including guaranteed holiday pay, sick pay, maternity leave, the right to join the trade union of your choice and protection from unfair dismissal
Choose between a wide range of respectable political parties from communist to nationalist
Be openly atheist without risk of disapproval, and still get elected as president
Have an abortion without the risk of having to pass a group of demonstrators
Get unlimited access to one of the world's best healthcare systems without involving private health insurance, or paying anything at all for serious health problems if you're poor

在全国任何两个城市之间可以乘坐快速列车，其中一些列车的时速可达300公里/小时(186英里/小时)
登机时不要脱鞋，更不要让你的身体被扫描。
开车可以去9个外国国家——大多数都不需要护照。
与同性结婚，并在全国范围内承认婚姻。
享有与工作相关的广泛权利，包括有保障的假期工资、病假工资、产假、加入工会的权利和免受不公平解雇的保护。
从共产主义者到民族主义者，可以选择广泛范围的政党。
无神论者可以公开，没有被反对的风险，仍然可以被选为总统。
快要流产的时候，不会有通过一群示威者的风险?
如果你贫穷，你仍然可以无限制地进入世界上最好的医疗系统，而不需要涉及私人医疗保险，或者为严重的健康问题支付任何费用。

Know in advance how much you will spend in a restaurant or supermarket without any mental calculations, because the published prices include tax and service, and tipping is optional
Tell different denominations of banknotes apart even in low light or if partially sighted/blind because each value is a different size and has the value printed in very large numbers
Buy alcohol from age 18 and never be asked for ID in your life
Choose from an awesome variety of wines, cheeses and high-cocoa chocolates even in small local stores
Buy ready-prepared meals in supermarkets that actually taste good
Tell which food contains genetically modified ingredients because they must be labelled
Get delicious freshly baked bread easily in even the smallest of towns
Watch the world's greatest athletic event, the Tour de France, from the side of the road, close enough to touch the athletes
Go to a wide variety of family-friendly nudist beaches, and go topless on any beach
See buildings more than 300 years old in all towns and cities, and intact Roman buildings more than 2000 years old in some places.

提前知道你在餐馆或超市里会花多少钱，不需要任何心理估计，因为有公布的价格包括税收和服务，而小费是可选的。
可以区分不同面值的钞票，即使是在较低的光线下，部分视力的或盲人仍可使用。因为每个面值都是不同的尺寸。而且有很大面额的纸币。
18岁开始就可以购买酒精饮料，在你的生活中永远不会被要求使用身份证。
即使是在当地的小商店，也可以选择各种各样的葡萄酒、奶酪和高可可巧克力。
在超级市场买现成的食物，味道好极了。
可以辨别哪些食物含有转基因成分，因为它们必须被贴上标签。
即使是最小的城镇，也可以轻易地得到美味的新鲜烤面包。
可以观看世界上最伟大的体育赛事，环法自行车赛，在路边，近距离接触运动员。
可以去各种各样的家庭形式的裸体海滩，在任何海滩上裸露上身。
在所有的城镇和城市中，可以看到超过300年的建筑，在有些地方，有着完好无损的罗马建筑超过2000年。

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If this question is an attempt to change American ATTITUDES of the rest of the world, it has failed.
A better question would be to invert the question, so you can answer like this:
1. Americans are not forced to see the bare breasts of women while they breast feed in public, the way that French people have to.
2. Americans are allowed to believe in creationism and that if the world is getting warmer, it is only because the Earth is coming out of an ice age, since American students do not have to study science in schools as much French students have to.
3. American employees can work 40 hours a week without overtime pay, whereas French people are entitled to overtime pay if they work over 35 hours a week. This makes French goods so uncompetitive with American made ones .
4. When Americans are unconcious on the street, they are free to negotiate which ambulance takes them to the hospital, which hospital they go to, and if they don't have the money to pay, they don't have to submit to unecessary medical treatment. 
French people have to carry with them a green card, that they have to pay for out of their taxes, so that when they leave a hospital they have to pay with it, or be faced with a huge medical bill. Even when the hospital is privately owned.
5. Americans accept that even as adults of 18, able to vote, they can't be trusted with drinking alcoholic beverages like beer, so they accept that until they are 21 they will have to drink vodka mixed with milk. 
French people of 18 are allowed to buy beer and wine just before they vote, although most of them do not, if they drive to the polling station.

如果这个问题试图改变世界其他国家对美国的态度，它就失败了。
一个更好的问题就是把问题反过来，就可以这样回答:
1，美国人不会被迫在公共场合看到女性裸露的乳房，这是法国人却不得不如此。
2，美国人被允许相信神创论，如果世界变暖，这仅仅是因为地球从冰河时代刚出来，美国学生不必像法国学生那样在学校里必须学习科学。
3，美国员工每周工作40个小时而不需要加班费，而法国人如果每周工作超过35小时，就需要得到加班费。这使得法国的商品与美国的产品相比毫无竞争力可言。
4，当美国人在大街上发生意外的时候，他们可以自由地协商哪辆救护车把他们送到医院，去哪家医院，如果他们没有钱支付，就可以不接受不必要的医疗。
而法国人必须随身携带一张绿卡，他们必须支付他们的税款，所以当他们离开医院时，他们必须已经支付了税款，否则就要面临巨额的医疗费用。即使医院是私人所有的。
5，甚至作为18岁的成年美国人,他们能够投票,但他们不能被信任饮用酒精饮料和啤酒，在他们21岁之前，不得不将伏特加与牛奶混合来喝。
18岁的法国人在投票前就可以购买啤酒和葡萄酒，尽管大多数人连开车去投票站都不会。

6. Americans accept that the only way to stop the state from becoming a tyranny is for every citizen to go around armed like a policeman, and every policeman to go around armed like a soldier.
7. All Americans can use whatever public transport they want, if it is available, and no one has to walk anywhere if they have a car.
French people have to pay a surcharge on the cost of a TGV。
8. All Americans can expect to get a job, no matter how low paid  or how meanial the work is, because the US has rules that make it difficult to be long term unemployed. 
French people can't always get a job, because there are many people on state benefits instead of doing menial work.
9. All American students have access to some of the greatest universities in the world, that are so popular, that up to 50% of the students who take STEM courses (science technology engineering mathematics) at some American universities are foreign students.
French people suffer from the requirement at many French universities that the student can read, write, and speak French. Which explains the reason why so many French university graduates only qualify in STEM subjects, which offer few opportunities in the modern world, for students who live in a country with no oil or coal reserves at all.

6。美国人认为，阻止国家成为暴政的唯一办法就是让每个公民都像警察一样武装起来，每个警察都像军人一样武装起来。
7，所有的美国人都可以使用他们想要的任何公共交通工具，如果条件允许的话，每个人都愿意有一辆车，不愿意步行。
法国人必须支付高速铁路成本的附加费。
8，所有的美国人都有希望得到一份工作，无论报酬多低，工作量多大，因为美国有一些规定，使得长期失业很难。
法国人不可能总能得到一份工作，使得有很多人在享受国家福利，而不是做一些卑微的工作。
9，所有美国学生都有机会接触到世界上一些最伟大的大学，这些大学非常受欢迎，在一些美国大学里，高达50%的学生都是外国学生。
法国人在很多法国大学都只需要这样的要求:学生可以读、写、说法语。这就解释了为什么这么多的法国大学毕业生只在STEM（科学，技术，工程，数学）学科上还不错，但在这个现代世界里几乎没有机会，因为他们生活在一个没有石油和煤炭储备的国家。