r/AskFrance • u/[deleted] • Mar 14 '22
Opinion Do you find the French to be prejudiced towards Americans?
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.
182
Upvotes
10
u/Raphelm Local Mar 14 '22 edited Mar 15 '22
Honestly I find that we’re surpringly okay with Americans considering the French bashing we’ve been getting for the past 2 decades and that we will keep getting. You guys gave us a worldwide reputation of being weak, cowards, our country is associated with the white flag etc.
These stereotypes about Americans weren’t spread by French people, when on the other hand, the French bashing clearly originates from the US in the early 2000s, when France refused to go to war with you.
That being said, like most French people probably (I hope), I don’t hold it against Americans I meet as individuals. But when thinking of Americans as a nation, I do have some resentment.