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• Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-French_sentiment

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  • wieson@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Laughing about the “Fr*nch” without knowing why is an uneducated American thing.

    As you are probably Swedish or German, I expect more informed jokes than just >hatred towards France, the French people [etc.]

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    • rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Wow that’s a pretty racist thing for you to say about Americans buddy.

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    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      you can expect into one hand and shit into the other, and see which one fills up first

      france is one of the main imperial nations, i see no reason to whinge about anti-france jokes, just like i see no reason to whinge about british, belgian, dutch, or american jokes.

      Hell i’ll swallow a decent amount of swede jokes, since we just wholesale made finland part of our nation and tried to colonize other parts of the world, we just didn’t particularly succeed…

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    • LordWiggle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Why do people have to support their claim the French aren’t nice when the French already do their best to be disliked? Have you ever experienced not being French in France? Have you ever experienced the French in their (former) colonies, how they act towards the locals? Have you ever experienced a French tourist in a different country, being angry because not everyone speaks French? I have experienced all of these scenarios. I have family in France, they aren’t different. My best friend is French, she left France because she thinks all French people are assholes. She’s never going back.

      Hatred towards the French is what the French created. They were so successful doing this, there’s no need to elaborate why exactly we’re making fun of them.

      I doubt you are French because if you were you would have surrendered immediately, so why bother defending them.

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      • wieson@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Have you ever experienced not being French in France?

        Yes. And always have they been nice and helpful to me. When they sensed that I was stuck with my french, they tried to switch to English. Which wasn’t better than my french, but hey, who’s counting.

        Have you ever experienced the French in their (former) colonies, how they act towards the locals?

        No. And I respect that the perspective from (former) colonies can be quite negative.

        Have you ever experienced a French tourist in a different country, being angry because not everyone speaks French?

        No, not ever. I have heard tourists speaking french here and there, but no notable occurrences.

        I doubt you are French

        I’m not.

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