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Maybe it would bring a smile to Casanova's lips to know that even now, although the world and the relative importance of the English language have changed so much, those of his countrymen who style themselves as his heirs retain his enthusiastic disregard for English spelling.
Yeats was a Protestant in a Catholic country, which, Foster suggests, might have led him to overcompensate with a romantic idealization of Ireland fiercer than that of his Catholic countrymen.
In places, his indictment of certain aspects of the Mexican character is so harsh--he accuses his fellow countrymen of pathological passivity and a love of lying--that it verges on masochism.
If we should not punish children for the sins of their fathers, then surely we should not punish children for the sins of their fathers' countrymen.
Bernard Shaw's Professor Henry Higgins liked to vent his ire on his fellow countrymen for “the cold-blooded murder of the English tongue.”