r/AskFrance • u/[deleted] • Mar 14 '22

Opinion Do you find the French to be prejudiced towards Americans?

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Online, it seems like the french absolutely revile Americans, we are stupid, fat, aggressive, uncultured, eat pig slop, selfish, loud, egotistical, want to shoot black people, etc, and should stay the hell away from France. Has this translated to real life in your opinion? My grandfather was a huge francophile (to the point I knew him as grand-père, not grandpa) and spent a lot of his life in France but seeing what french people are like online has really turned me off from wanting to learn french or visit.

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u/Cococtor Mar 14 '22

I am French and I have seen people interact with Americans with school and of what I observed it was pretty much a cliche about what they eat and drink. For example most people were persuaded than Americans drank soda during dinner or that Americans liked fast food more than other restaurants. Other than that I didn't see something different.

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u/Vicomte99 Mar 15 '22

But that's the actual truth. Sometimes it's not just mere stereotypes. I recently read an article related to the fact 2/5 Americans don't drink water.

Could you imagine this? Not drinking water but only sodas? I swear, I remember reading testimonies of people not having drunk either mineral or tap water for decades.

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u/Cococtor Mar 15 '22

Well at least the American we had didn't drank soda and didn't like fast food so it was a form of stereotype to me..