Changes

The compelling research findings concerning long-term and deeply held values led Gladwell to the conclusion that cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives. They persist, generation after generation, virtually intact, even as the economic and social demographic conditions that spawned them have vanished, and they play such a role in directing attitudes and behavior that we cannot make sense of our world without them. He goes on to note the possibilities of “taking cultural legacies seriously” in order to learn “why people succeed and how to make people better.”<ref>[http://www.culturalfront.org/2013/10/outliers-cultural-legacies.html Outliers & Cultural Legacies]</ref>}}

The compelling research findings concerning long-term and deeply held values led Gladwell to the conclusion that cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives. They persist, generation after generation, virtually intact, even as the economic and social demographic conditions that spawned them have vanished, and they play such a role in directing attitudes and behavior that we cannot make sense of our world without them. He goes on to note the possibilities of “taking cultural legacies seriously” in order to learn “why people succeed and how to make people better.”<ref>[http://www.culturalfront.org/2013/10/outliers-cultural-legacies.html Outliers & Cultural Legacies]</ref>}}

=== Recent improvement in France's dining experiences ===

== Ban on public smoking: Recent improvement in France's dining experiences ==

[[File:Paris street photo of a man smoking.jpg|thumbnail|right|200px|[[Paris]] street photo of a man smoking. ]]

[[File:Paris street photo of a man smoking.jpg|thumbnail|right|200px|[[Paris]] street photo of a man smoking. ]]

As noted above, the irreligious are more frequently smokers  (see: [[Irreligion and smoking]]).

As noted above, the irreligious are more frequently smokers  (see: [[Irreligion and smoking]]).