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<blockquote data-quote="Big Ewis" data-source="post: 662140" data-attributes="member: 57076">well about that FrenchFan, I&#039;m mixed myself (genetically). My mom&#039;s Coptic Egyptian, although that changes very little as to who I am. What makes me un-French is the fact I&#039;ve lived in Qatar 26 years; the environment, the people, the English language almost everywhere, the habits...these things forge a person. So I consider myself a Qatari French, not in that I&#039;m half-Qatari, as in Arabic; but that I have a side of me that is Qatar-bound. Realistically, it&#039;s my &quot;American/globalization&quot; side, I don&#039;t speak with a French accent in English and know things &quot;stem-French&quot; ppl don&#039;t and don&#039;t know things stem-French ppl do. But my country is France, and I have only one flag. The choice must be made.I extend this conversation to the Jewish topic: if I were Jewish French, I&#039;d pick my side. What if a war raged tomorrow between Israel and France ? A Frenchman should pick France, doesn&#039;t matter where he&#039;s lived, what friends he&#039;s had, or his creed or origins.But back to athletes: if an athlete learns all his craft elsewhere, and then you just buy him off at the end of his formative/building process, esp. if he&#039;s played a number of years in a foreign league, like Kockott, surely that&#039;s a little problematic. We can&#039;t just close our eyes and say &quot;yeah, get with the times, mate !&quot;. I&#039;m not saying &quot;NO !&quot; categorically to Kockott but I&#039;d really rather we didn&#039;t pick him quite yet. We don&#039;t even need him, and he&#039;s not even going to solve anything for this sinking France ship.I&#039;d rather use a poaching card when we really need it, since it&#039;s so ambiguous. See ?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Big Ewis, post: 662140, member: 57076"] well about that [B]FrenchFan[/B], I'm mixed myself (genetically). My mom's Coptic Egyptian, although that changes very little as to who I am. What makes me un-French is the fact I've lived in Qatar 26 years; the environment, the people, the English language almost everywhere, the habits...these things forge a person. So I consider myself a Qatari French, not in that I'm half-Qatari, as in Arabic; but that I have a side of me that is Qatar-bound. Realistically, it's my "American/globalization" side, I don't speak with a French accent in English and know things "stem-French" ppl don't and don't know things stem-French ppl do. But my country is France, and I have only one flag. The choice must be made. I extend this conversation to the Jewish topic: if I were Jewish French, I'd pick my side. What if a war raged tomorrow between Israel and France ? A Frenchman should pick France, doesn't matter where he's lived, what friends he's had, or his creed or origins. But back to athletes: if an athlete learns all his craft elsewhere, and then you just buy him off at the end of his formative/building process, esp. if he's played a number of years in a foreign league, like Kockott, surely that's a little problematic. We can't just close our eyes and say "yeah, get with the times, mate !". I'm not saying "NO !" categorically to Kockott but I'd really rather we didn't pick him quite yet. We don't even need him, and he's not even going to solve anything for this sinking France ship. I'd rather use a poaching card when we really need it, since it's so ambiguous. See ? [/QUOTE]

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