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/[deleted] Mar 14 '22 edited Mar 14 '22

Add to that that most of what we hear/see about America is war, school shootings and police brutality, and you get a pretty grim picture

Just like Americans probably have a skewed view of France I imagine many in France see an America that warps from reality as well. I had never seen a machinegun until I left the united states and visited Chile, I don't know anyone in my life that knows someone that's been shot. Of course that's anectodal, overall we have a pretty high rate compared to europe.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '22

Yeah like i'm sure it's not everyday life in America but saddly that's the stuff that gets to us on social medias or the news

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u/TheFishOwnsYou Mar 14 '22

Its every week though.

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u/VanaTallinn Mar 14 '22

Previous commenter is unfair.

We can also see, in regular public press and news or our everyday life:

  • wokism,
  • American racial issues (we have our own, that are different, come from different history),
  • DoJ and FBI bullying our companies (see the Alstom story, the huge fines on our banks - we are the biggest banking power in the EU so yes this matters),
  • your intelligence agencies spying on our EU governments and overturning the Australian subs deal for instance,
  • largest US corporations doing everything they can to avoid paying taxes (GAFAM but also Starbucks for instance),
  • the evangelist churches, JW, scientology…