Universal Appreciation

When Mozart was a child, he never touched the keyboard of a pianowithout first asking his audience, with a most disarming smile: Do you love me? He needed an atmosphere of sympathy and appreciation to give his best. İn the same way, many Americans when visiting a foreign country for the first time innocently ask: do they like us here?

There is nothing childish in this question...... The British want to be 'respected.' ........... But the Americans and the French want to be appreciated. They believe that they are entitiled to universal appreciation.

Andre Visson, (1948), As Others See Us, (Robert College Library Istanbul), Doubleday & Company, INC, New York