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Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier
Of all the European countries France has been involved in the most conflicts, but like Great Britain they were hugely experienced in statecraft and they're an old state fully used to conflicts, so its people dealt with the hardship as generation after generation had done so before and its people just got on with things. In relation to what is being discussed, the USA are basically a young country that has had to absorb a lot of conflicts in its short history and the results of this are open to debate, as to how this has affected American society over the last 100 years or so.
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A couple quick comments about this:
- Modern France isn't an old country, it's younger than the United States.
- Like the modern British and French people, Americans are also descended from generation after generation of people who come from "states fully used to conflicts", many of them in fact from the two states you just named.