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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
It’s obviously cringe, but I don’t think it’s some trivial thing, it’s a trauma of Colonialism. Americans don’t truly have a claim to the land they pillaged to live on. Whiteness absorbed European ethics like the borg, stripped them of a language and culture, and all they have left is getting run over by a Ford F250 in a Walmart parking lot.
So a lot of white Americans have this near libidinal need to tie themselves to a culture they consider to be more real or substantive. I don’t think that’s a trivial desire, but insisting that you’re Italian, despite not knowing anything about the place, or claiming your great great great grandma was a Cherokee princess, or some shit… That ain’t it
As a french girl, I hate France too
Maybe that’s why we Germans don’t hate you guys - we’re busy hating our own country as well
People love to hate the french but I find it pretty unearned.
They put up the white flag before any argument could be made.
American commenter detected, how dare you fuck with France without even being European. And if you are European, how dare you using the American punchline when we have our own for France.
German, lol.
Then proceed to read the second sentence, thank you. I’m on the other side of France, but feel free to ask for some hate mail material.
seriously at least go for something a little more clever
Sorry. We got other things to hate on right now that are worth more hate than the French.
This, and without a hint of irony.
France, you’re a cunt and I love you.
They’re cunts not they’re our cunts.
Exactly! We may all hate each other on some level, but we are still sistren and brethren of europe (russia you dont count fuck off, but we can gladlely accept kasachstan as honorary european in its place instead). Hit on one of us and we are a united front!..atleast the people…politics…ugh lets not start that…
Second pic is “listen here, you little shit” expressed with chef’s kiss.
Do we Latinos join the club or not?
We love to mess with speakers of other Romance languages.
We can at least all agree that Portugal doesn’t exist
You mean Eastern Spain? Where they speak Brazilian?
Eastern?
Nobody knows what language they speak, it lacks vowels. Also, it’s western spain 🙃
We can agree that portugal is a lost balcan nation
Oh yeah, it’s siblings rivalry. Outsiders OUT.
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
Not true, we the French don’t care you hate us.
If anything, your hate makes us stronger.
I showed a French dude a meme about British people relaxing when they get home because they don’t have to do the accent anymore. He said it’s the same with French people, except about pretending they like France.
We love our country with the same passion we hate our country.
If anything, your hate makes us stronger.
You may want to recalibrate that, you’re looking awfully weak and french
I’m also commenting to let people know I don’t care.
Your food sucks and your wines are hugely overrated.
Reminds me of that experiment some guy did and dressed up in Mexican attire and Americans were all saying how offensive it was.
Then he went to Mexico and asked old Mexican men and they all shrugged and couldn’t have been less offended by him.
I think they all hate the English more than the French.
One thing doesn’t exclude the other. We have big hearts, we can hate multiple countries, including our own.
We all hate America more than literally anything (or any place) more on Earth.
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.
I love it. Never understood the hate for the French. I sometimes mock their accent 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.
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.
It was pretty much all Napoleon though. Combined with utter incompetence of the neighbouring states.
Well, they conquered Spain by turning against them, allies up to that point, and having their army inside the country already. “The war can be said to have started when the French and Spanish armies invaded and occupied Portugal in 1807 by transiting through Spain, but it escalated in 1808 after Napoleonic France occupied Spain, which had been its ally.”
The the Spaniards handed Napoleon his ass on a platter, coining the word guerrilla.
Yeah, you know, I wasn’t really around then. And I don’t believe in making fun of someone because their ancestors were dicks.
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
Tbf, english insults are generally very lame compared to French, Italian etc etc
I don’t know know, calling someone a twat, plonker or nob has its charm. Although German ones are the best in any case
It’s because insults in French are much better. Insulting in French is more cathartic.
Can’t tell if it’s a parody or actual scene from the movie.
Actual scene from the movie.
Literally >50% of every sentence out of a Frenchmans mouth online is fdp or mdr…
Not all french are versed in the art of cursing, that is the sad truth.
I, as a German, actually love the French
ARTE: plan is working, excellent
HERETIC
🇨🇵❤️🇩🇪
(Ich bin französisch)
Sometimes you Germans love them a little too much and France has to get restraining orders.
I was going to respond, “As is tradition.”
It’s not our fault when they make their streets so marchable with rows of trees to keep our soldiers in the shade.
Loved them so much they wanted to keep a part of them.
I want to know the context.
Stereotypes.
Americans are incredibly obsessed about which European countries their distant ancestors came from, even if they basically know nothing about these countries or how they are today.
Meanwhile, in Europe, friendly neighbour ribbing is alive and well. Everyone slings mud over the border, and it’s fine, usually, they’ll do the same to us, you see.
I feel like the incelish greentext format is best way to explain my hatred for the historical France.
> Colonizes random north african country. > Adds "being gay is illegal" to their constitution. > Leaves. > Refuses to elaborate. Wtf was their problem?The French don’t mind, cause they don’t understand any language except French.
They hate French people in France too, so…
Ils le comprennent parfaitement mais ils refusent de le parler.
Je mapelle jobbies et je 35 ans. Je habite a Ecosse et je taime Duran Duran et le ping pong.
enchanté
Je ne veux pas deux cent cinquante grammes d’olives.
I don’t want any wine, thanks.
I am french
This is an outdated stereotype. I’d be willing to bet more French speak a second language than Americans.
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.
most people i know who grew up in california took at least a couple years of high school spanish.
i was a snot, i took german with the goth kids instead.
Absolute numbers? what kind of intentionality disingenuous comparison is that? We have like 4x their population.
Try visiting France. Almost everyone in the major cities speaks English to a competent degree. Only like a quarter of Americans speak Spanish equivalently (at most). I mean not even all Latin people speak Spanish in the US.
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.
Wow two whole young people. So almost everyone else spoke English right? Don’t lie to me because I’ve been there many times and I know they do.
It’s crazy how Americans get defensive about the dumbest shit.
But not than Belgians, Dutch, polish or Germans, which are the most frequent comparisons.
Why would the Dutch/Polish/Germans speak more languages?
They do, each country for different reasons.
Idk about the Polish and Germans personally, but for the Netherlands at least it’s a relatively small country with a limited amount of entertainment made there, so a ton of media is imported and subtitled. Since a lot of it comes from the US and UK, and most of it is subtitled (for the most part only kids’ shows are dubbed over), the majority of people speak or at least understand English. According to Wikipedia, it has been estimated that as much as 90% to 97% of the population is proficient in English.
Also English, French and German are part of you high school curriculum next to Dutch so at least you get a basic understanding of 3 other languages, of the 3 English is the one that sticks the most because of the aforementioned media that gets imported.
Belgium alone has 3 official languages: French, Dutch and a German speaking part.
The French part refuses to learn any of the other official languages, even in school. They don’t see the need.
While the other parts are a lot more open to other languages. You will be hard pressed to find someone in Flanders that doesn’t speak French on top of their Dutch.
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
Historically 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 the lingua franca of Europe 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.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_speakers_in_Europe
This list estimates native French and English speakers are approximately the same amount as of 2024
I knew Russian was gonna be the largest but I’m surprised German was higher than French and English, and didn’t know French and English were approximately neck and neck
Lingua franca isn’t about native speakers, and if anything it’s about second language speakers. Mandarin has the most global native speakers, but even if we remove it from the running because it has a logographic writing system, number 2 is Spanish. Yet the global lingua franca is English.
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Don’t forget their baguette and croissant dividends.
Is it like NYC bagels where there’s a noticeable difference? I’ve had high end bagels in Pennsylvania and Virginia where they use the same recipe and technique and they’re legit not quite as good
Being a filthy American I’ve never tried a bread product made in France. Anyone tried both French and non-French (but made in the same style) baguettes/croissants who can speak for the difference?
Can confirm, their cheese if fucking awesome
then what
Then, Mac, maybe we can get some Mac & cheese
Even their cheese is busy getting laid, I see
They don’t care to understand.
A shame, they seemed an honest man.
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.
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 » ?
Yeah, I’m from New Jersey but took French in middle and high school, and eventually, at 19 say let’s do this thing, and I go to Montreal, and imagine my surprise when I have no idea what the fuck they’re saying. And I make friends with a couple on a cruise from Gatineau, and my god, it’s even harder to understand. I was failed by my education!
And when I go to Paris and speak French they’re like “Okay you can stop,” which to me means good enough! The New Jersey accent is quite unlike the French accent, it seems.
Hating the French is a MI6 psyop to direct hate away from the Bri*ish
We can multitask, mate.
Fits
Most Europeans don’t even think about the Bri*ish
That’s why your not invited to the haters ball
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Gott strafe England.
What about the Germans? Or are they just too low hanging fruit for banter?
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.
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.
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English
When people talk about the “British” they tend to show their ignorance about the UK
You’re talking about the English.
Not the Scots, not the Welsh
