• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
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    10 months ago

    It’s so weird how there’s this stereotype about French people hating Americans when people seem to have forgotten that Republicans once hated the French so much (for daring to not join America in a war) that they changed ‘French fries’ to ‘freedom fries’ for a while. And then there’s the bullshit “France always surrenders” meme that so many Americans believe. The French military is fucking fierce.

    In my experience, it’s Americans who hate the French a lot more than French people hating Americans.

    • Miaou@jlai.lu
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      10 months ago

      In my experience, the French who hate the Americans are the ones who travel. I’ll let you draw your own conclusions from there

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        10 months ago

        And we wear

        Canadian flags

        When we travel

        On our bags

        'Cause we are Americans (ah yeah!)

        – Corky and the Juice Pigs, Americans

      • Obi@sopuli.xyz
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        10 months ago

        You’re not wrong, I’d say your average French that didn’t travel much and works for French companies basically doesn’t care about Americans at all. It’s when you actually go there or work for American companies that you start radicalising…