Culturally insensitive
Submitted 6 days ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world to [deleted]
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FreshLight@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 days ago
Oh yeah, it’s siblings rivalry. Outsiders OUT.
FishFace@piefed.social 5 days ago
This, and without a hint of irony.
France, you’re a cunt and I love you.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 5 days ago
They’re cunts not they’re our cunts.
raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Second pic is “listen here, you little shit” expressed with chef’s kiss.
ashenone@lemmy.ml 6 days ago
Hating the French is a MI6 psyop to direct hate away from the Bri*ish
Hubi@feddit.org 6 days ago
Most Europeans don’t even think about the Bri*ish
ashenone@lemmy.ml 6 days ago
That’s why your not invited to the haters ball
mabeledo@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Spaniards do, but only during summer.
Tja@programming.dev 6 days ago
We can multitask, mate.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
Fits
zaphod@sopuli.xyz 6 days ago
Gott strafe England.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
What about the Germans? Or are they just too low hanging fruit for banter?
Lumidaub@feddit.org 5 days ago
Banter is fun when the other side can give back in a humourous way. I’m told. I wouldn’t know, too busy being efficient.
Wander@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Unpopular opinion but the British aren’t even that bad. They are only hated so much because they have been really good at a lot of things and drinking too much. The foundation most of the world is based on is British and it’s easy to miss.
mabeledo@lemmy.world 5 days ago
The foundation most of the world is based on is British and it’s easy to miss.
Lol not even close.
Also, there are very specific reasons why the British have bad rep.
FluidBeef@quokk.au 5 days ago
What are we for then - to direct hate away from the Yanks?
DmMacniel@feddit.org 6 days ago
~I, as a German, actually love the French~
My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Sometimes you Germans love them a little too much and France has to get restraining orders.
HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Loved them so much they wanted to keep a part of them.
GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca 6 days ago
I was going to respond, “As is tradition.”
Tja@programming.dev 6 days ago
ARTE: plan is working, excellent
DmMacniel@feddit.org 6 days ago
I rarely watch ARTE, though.
zloubida@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
🇨🇵❤️🇩🇪
(Ich bin französisch)
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 6 days ago
KETZER
CarstenBoll@feddit.dk 6 days ago
I feel like most Europeans have no issue with the French, it’s an America-thing. Maybe a UK-thing.
horse@feddit.org 5 days 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 5 days ago
As a fellow German I kind of admire the French protest culture. Fully agreed.
skisnow@lemmy.ca 5 days 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.
ICastFist@programming.dev 4 days ago
They were also the ones that brought USA into Vietnam in the 1950s…
fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 days 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 5 days ago
We hate “The French” but have no issues with French people.
jdr@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
The English once found a monkey after a shipwreck and tried and hanged it on the charge of being French.
Hiro8811@lemmy.world 5 days ago
It’s mostly american propaganda
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
I’m an englishman francophile. I love Jacques Brel, Georges Perec, French food…
like everything this is just a meme
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 days ago
don’t forget Dominique Pinon
FluidBeef@quokk.au 5 days ago
Poirot and Tin-tin.
CorrenteAlternata@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 days 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 5 days ago
We have no issue with the French. We do hate the Italians, they’re a bunch of pushy fascists.
Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 days 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.
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
There’s only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people’s cultures and the
DutchFrench.beegnyoshi@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
In overwatch EU servers (maybe in other similar games too), in my experience, in terms of pure toxicity hurled at you, having a french accent in comms manages to be even worse than having a female voice. Couldn’t help but smile this one time someone told me they wouldn’t be using the team comms because they were french. Amazing.
PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I love it. Never understood the hate for the French. I sometimes mock their accept out of admiration (same with Dutch). It sounds so nice to me. Once came across a woman who spoke in a French accent in Overwatch, rolled her R’s forever and it sounded so attractive.
bimbobear@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Despite some very famous recent losses, France historically tended to go to war with and win against just about everyone on the continent, as such everyone got a bit salty about it. These days its just more of a meme.
Jumi@lemmy.world 5 days ago
The French are the saltiest fuckers on the European OW servers. If they want to really insult you they switch to French, fucking cowards.
Which is honestly absolutely hilarious
mastertigurius@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I love Europe. It’s the only place where a bus driver from country A can get into a heated argument with a random guy from country B in two completely different languages. After both have gone on for a bit and not understood a word of what the other one was saying, they have reached a point of agreement, can wish each other a good day and carry on.
tetris11@feddit.uk 6 days ago
First they exchange cigarettes though
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Also, people in Canada: “we hate the Quebecois”
Lanske@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I actually quite like the french nowadays…coming from a dutchie
AceOnTrack@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 days ago
Not true, we the French don’t care you hate us.
If anything, your hate makes us stronger.
Broadfern@lemmy.world 6 days ago
The US equivalent would be Missouri lolol
Sub-continents bonding over a shared butt-of-the-joke is fun.
FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world 5 days ago
The painful 'Murican obsession with identifying as a member of a culture they have a tenuous link to, in an attempt to be interesting, is genuinely cringeworthy
Your great grandfather was Scottish, French, Irish, Italian etc.
Not you
SatansDaughter@quokk.au 6 days ago
As a french girl, I hate France too
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 6 days ago
People love to hate the french but I find it pretty unearned.
tino@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Hating other nations is the starting point of all fascist ideas. (also, I’m french)
thethrilloftime69@feddit.online 6 days ago
I think they all hate the English more than the French.
switcheroo@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Sorry. We got other things to hate on right now that are worth more hate than the French.
Willy@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
how can you be 5% anything?
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Scare Bleu!
jaded_genie@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Is the 2westerneurope4u finally coming to lemmy? 😍
yakko@feddit.uk 6 days ago
Funny how the American one is better in principle, but worse in practise while the European one is worse in principle but (ehhh fine I guess but ugh) in practise
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I feel like the incelish greentext format is best way to explain my hatred for historical France and what they did to countries like Tunis.
> Colonizes random north african country. > Adds "being gay is illegal" to their constitution. > Leaves. > Refuses to elaborate. Wtf was the Frenchs' problem?
BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Same strips but horizontal.
VitoRobles@lemmy.today 5 days ago
Americans: You should see how racist Asian countries are!
(Me going to Europe and hearing the wildest takes)
bufalo1973@piefed.social 6 days ago
… and each and everyone of you, bastards.🤪
elucubra@sopuli.xyz 5 days ago
The French are hated by basically any nation that has a border with them. They fucking invented chauvinism. Wonder why?
Obnomus@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
I want to know the context.
Frettchen@lemmy.world 4 days ago
As European we don’t!
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 6 days ago
The French don’t mind, cause they don’t understand any language except French.
janus2@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
the impression I get is that they’re pretending not to understand, but they do, they just don’t give a flying fuck what other people think of them because everyone keeps buying their cheese, wine, and fashion so they’re busy counting money, getting laid, and smoking like chimneys lol
grranibal@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
Can confirm, their cheese if fucking awesome
Cheesus@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
They don’t care to understand.
Wander@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Historical they think or at least seem to think learning English is beneath them. In fact doing anything not French is beneath them. Then they act like wankers and that’s why everyone hates them.
English is the dominate language and the Chinese even accepted it before the French. At this point the youth have sort of given up and end up consuming a lot of media and internet in English so it’s way better. Also European lingua franca is English so they got to learn it just to speak to everyone else, but they don’t really and as such have probably the worst english is western Europe and even most of Europe in general.
msage@programming.dev 5 days ago
Don’t forget their baguette and croissant dividends.
zaphod@sopuli.xyz 6 days ago
Ils le comprennent parfaitement mais ils refusent de le parler.
RobotToaster@mander.xyz 6 days ago
I don’t want any wine, thanks.
jobbies@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
Je mapelle jobbies et je 35 ans. Je habite a Ecosse et je taime Duran Duran et le ping pong.
herrvogel@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Je ne veux pas deux cent cinquante grammes d’olives.
ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca 6 days ago
They hate French people in France too, so…
jif@piefed.ca 6 days ago
This is an outdated stereotype. I’d be willing to bet more French speak a second language than Americans.
Tja@programming.dev 6 days ago
But not than Belgians, Dutch, polish or Germans, which are the most frequent comparisons.
LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 6 days ago
lol not in absolute numbers terms, no way. The US has 5x the population, and there are tons of immigrants that speak multiple languages. So regardless of how stupid native-born citizens are, there are still many bilingual+ people.
Hazel@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 days ago
I’ve been in France for two days and have already met 2 young people who didn’t speak more than high school English. Oh and I’m a tourist, so they were working a job where they have to interact with foreigners regularly…
Now of course anecdote isn’t statistics, and my French is certainly no better, but compared to other European countries their English level is… notable.
Dwayne_Elizondo_Mountain_Dew_Camacho@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
They don’t even understand French from other countries.
Source : Je suis Canadien français mais je parle anglais quand je vais en France. C’est beaucoup moins chiant.
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 5 days ago
Ce n’est effectivement pas qu’une question d’accent. Ils utilisent des mots différents pour désigner certaines choses. Dites-vous aussi « quatre-vingt-dix-neuf » au lieu de « nonante-neuf » ?
BreadOven@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Someone in France told my friend she was speaking barbarian French (Quebecois French) once.
BluePea@piefed.social 6 days ago
I am french
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
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