Bashing the French, why?

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historybuff

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I like the French. Hell, without them, we'd probably still be slurping down tea.


What you see of the French bashing is usually, at least from what I have viewed (and I don't know if OP is American or not)--comes from places like Fox News (I use the term 'News' lightly.) and uneducated conservatives who are afraid of everything across the ocean.

On the light-hearted side, world powers are always going to play with rivalry. America is a big easy target for everyone--and they all take advantage of it--so I can't get too upset about Americans firing back with equally uninformed insults.

However, not all of us are against France.

Behold.
 

MagicShroom

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TheCameraman said:
DISCLAIMER: I AM NOT FRENCH, NEITHER DO I HAVE
Now the Brits I can understand, seeing as they and France have been at anothers throats since they found out it was life on the other side of the canal, it's kind of a Love-Hate relationship.
However, the worst culprits of this bashing are usually Americans for some strange reason.
I can't really find any good historical reasons why they should try and "ridicule" the french so much, but maybe I am missing something. Also, this seems to have surfaced in recent years, so I suspect it might have something to do with recent political events.
Actually one of the major reasons that Americans bash the French is not too long ago Americans felt betrayed by the French (due to not only not helping us in the Iraq war, but we found out they were on the other side on the Iraq war. (because Iraq owed France money) Note that this when Saddam Hussein was still in power)
 

Zedzero

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Salem_Wolf said:
Isn't every nationality an open invitation to be bashed? At the risk of being moderated for this, I'm going to list examples (And I do happen to be American, quarter-Irish and quarter-Italian, so I'm really bashing myself here as well):

French - Smelly and cowardly
American - Obese and stupid
Japanese - Weird and highly perverted
Spanish - Moochers and dirty
Irish - Drunkards
Italian - Fat pasta lovers

Wait, did I go from Bashing to mixing in stereotypes? Crap, probably. But the point is, the French is just seemingly an easy target, but it doesn't take you long before you find people Bashing pretty much every country and nationality there is, not just the French. Perhaps the whole REASON behind it is because the French surrendered during World War 2 because they were weak-willed and Americans feel the need to remind them that we (helped) win the war and they surrendered.

It's all kind of silly really, but that's what I think the reason is.



Edit: Fixed my idiocy in saying "we" as in "America" won the war, that was partially true, but we alone did not win the war. My apologies.
I'm Irish and proud, even though I don't drink, well I'm 1/4 Irish, BTW every descendant from the original origin diludes your mix, so depending on what generation you only are a certain amount, so say if your the 4 generation, here is how it breaks down.

Origin -> 1/2 -> 1/4 -> 1/8 - 1/16, not just because your great great were of that origin. So if you say I'm 1/4 this and 1/4 that, because I'm mixed from 4 cultures, your wrong.
 

Lord_Panzer

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Because it's like shooting Frenchmen in a trenc- *ahem*

I mean, it's like shooting fish in a small, silly-looking, under-designed, minimally-tested, lemon-of-a barrel... [small]oh my, this is difficult...[/small]

It's just easy, alright?
 

Hidan03

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A song from a random video entitled spatula madness.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNCMlFH2FFs

trust me, the full version contains twice as much france bashing.
 

Salem_Wolf

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Zedzero said:
Salem_Wolf said:
Isn't every nationality an open invitation to be bashed? At the risk of being moderated for this, I'm going to list examples (And I do happen to be American, quarter-Irish and quarter-Italian, so I'm really bashing myself here as well):

French - Smelly and cowardly
American - Obese and stupid
Japanese - Weird and highly perverted
Spanish - Moochers and dirty
Irish - Drunkards
Italian - Fat pasta lovers

Wait, did I go from Bashing to mixing in stereotypes? Crap, probably. But the point is, the French is just seemingly an easy target, but it doesn't take you long before you find people Bashing pretty much every country and nationality there is, not just the French. Perhaps the whole REASON behind it is because the French surrendered during World War 2 because they were weak-willed and Americans feel the need to remind them that we (helped) win the war and they surrendered.

It's all kind of silly really, but that's what I think the reason is.



Edit: Fixed my idiocy in saying "we" as in "America" won the war, that was partially true, but we alone did not win the war. My apologies.
I'm Irish and proud, even though I don't drink, well I'm 1/4 Irish, BTW every descendant from the original origin diludes your mix, so depending on what generation you only are a certain amount, so say if your the 4 generation, here is how it breaks down.

Origin -> 1/2 -> 1/4 -> 1/8 - 1/16, not just because your great great were of that origin. So if you say I'm 1/4 this and 1/4 that, because I'm mixed from 4 cultures, your wrong.
Actually my grandfather was Italian and my Grandmother was Irish, both from their respective cultures, my dad was half of each and the next line is me. I'm a mix of other things from my mom's side of the family. That would make me a quarter of each, right? Correct me if I'm wrong though, I can take the brutal realization I'm wrong. lol
 

Maggotworm

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because they're arrogant and smell like cheese.

and they were also ranked as the worst tourists.
 

Lonan

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I think it's leftover from our British origins, Canada, Australia, U.S. all probably have something against the French. The "cool kids" at my high school said that the only good thing the French ever did was invent the titty fuck. I've also heard a bit of anti-Quebec stuff from Edmontonians, like "Quebec's a hole." (I was blown away by the wit)

Everyone in my elementary school class was cheering for the French as we went through Canadian history. It wasn't as hard a side to be on as you might think. The British would actually walked shoulder to shoulder through the forests of Canada wearing bright red uniforms (all armies did back then, because muskets created a lot of smoke, so in a long battle you could barely see, so all soldiers wore bright uniforms so they wouldn't attack someone on the same side) which was a great idea on an open plain in Europe, but they got ass-raped by the French and their native allies who were largely hidden and without bright uniforms. So just a little bit of positive stuff about the French there.

Although, I could REALLY go on if someone wanted to me to be negative about the French.
 

lostclause

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I'm from New Zealand and so have reason to hate the french (rainbow warrior, economic blockade, nuclear tests etc.)