They are forced to defend their Britishness, their Frenchness or their Americaness -- even if they are third- or fourth-generation citizens of those countries.

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Yet the very Frenchness of Breton's cerebral authoritarianism proved so suffocating that in the end it was foreigners working in visual arts who carried surrealism into the world.

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He changed his tune, by the way, when the same group of players won the World Cup and his reservations about their Frenchness were suddenly swept away in the tide of national rejoicing.

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