at least for me.

I was socialized by an educational television series with a bunch of longhaired people in skin coloured body suits that came from the future and/or from planet Gamma. And on Gamma ruled some kind of eco-commune-Alain-Badiou-projection.
Nonetheless les Gammas only spoke Gamma (and had to learn French) I thought as a boy––and I still think––they would be French.

It was one of the few things I was allowed to watch on TV (education!).
Alf from planet Magma was ten years later.
So from very early on, to me the future was French and each time I come to Paris I know that this is true.