Here, take my upvote, and thank you!
– A french.
CarstenBoll@feddit.dk 3 weeks ago
I feel like most Europeans have no issue with the French, it’s an America-thing. Maybe a UK-thing.
dwzap@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
CluckN@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The ruse worked get them!
Akasazh@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Quickly grab the Alsace !
dwzap@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
nooooo
skisnow@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
It’s an American thing that has slightly spilled out to the UK through popular media.
France has a strong track record post WW2 of consistently standing up to the USA’s wars abroad; they were one of the first to kick US nuclear bases out of their own country during the Cold War, and were their biggest Western opponent at the UN regarding the second Iraq war. Hence the continued popularity of the “cheese-eating surrender monkeys” trope in American media.
jdr@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Never mind the 900 years of constant wars
Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
“You see king philipe, we have a very lucrative wine trade in gascony and the flemish like us and we like their cloth industry. You know…thinking about, my mother was the last of the house of capet. Wouldnt that make…king of france?” - Edward III probably
skisnow@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Anyone in the 21st century claiming to still be sore over the Napoleonic Wars or anything pre-dating them maybe shouldn’t be taken seriously
ICastFist@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
They were also the ones that brought USA into Vietnam in the 1950s…
fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Ah, no, we don’t have issues with the french, we just love hating on each other because you know, we have history. Not with the current ones which is why we have no issues, but you know, it’s entertaining.
French can joke about how the Basque did a very early space program (terrorism), how the Germans love their soap (Nazism) and so on. We don’t have issues with each other, it’s just fuckery.
That’s why it’s weird when Americans call french white flags… They are not allowed, also their references are about their experiences as tourists, which is like, it was probably their fault.
1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
We hate “The French” but have no issues with French people.
musubibreakfast@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I love France, it’s a beautiful country. Unfortunately it’s filled with Frenchmen.
jdr@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
The English once found a monkey after a shipwreck and tried and hanged it on the charge of being French.
Hiro8811@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s mostly american propaganda
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I’m an englishman francophile. I love Jacques Brel, Georges Perec, French food…
like everything this is just a meme
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
don’t forget Dominique Pinon
FluidBeef@quokk.au 3 weeks ago
Poirot and Tin-tin.
CorrenteAlternata@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Italians have a tendency to hate/compare themselve to the French.
For example: Italy scores very badly in some rankings. The first thing an Italian would do is to check if France is higher or lower than Italy. If it’s lower, they’d say “at least we beat the french”. If it’s higher they’d say “damn we even scored worse than France… terrible”.
But I don’t think people actually hate france or the french. it’s more like a meme I think!
Source:
I’m italian and I don’t hate nor love the French
musubibreakfast@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
We have no issue with the French. We do hate the Italians, they’re a bunch of pushy fascists.
Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Their government. Fascists are everywhere. Germany, france, poland, england, turkey, romania, finland, sweden, portugal. Everywhere. and once the fat bald snake of a bear is dealt with one way or the other, oooh that will be beautiful watching them scramble without their biggest finance and supprter.
horse@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
The French are incredibly based and the trope of them surrendering immediately is ridiculous. The French resistance during WW2 was fierce. And in throughout history and in current times the French don’t take shit from their government. If the French government tried even a fraction of what our (German) government is pushing through at the moment Paris would be burned to the ground. Meanwhile we (Germans) just whine and do nothing.
raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
As a fellow German I kind of admire the French protest culture. Fully agreed.
Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
As another fellow german, i admire way more. We germans have lots to learn from french culture. From treating meal times and food as something to be celebrated and not a neccessary annoying task. Their local empathy without tearing others down. The joy of life and less complaining about small minor things while ignoring how good we got it. Their protest and workers-unity culture though is on top of the list. If we had that, Mr. Burns would have never gotten into office, a curtain brown party made in russia wouldnt be so populare, and so many social problems we wouldnt have rn.
Also the french goal for european independence and self reliance.
But the french nuclear power kink can stay in france