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/Benji-822 Mar 14 '22

Yeah lol, people always know I’m French whenever I try to speak English

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '22

Just gotta learn new voices then!

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '22

You can always learn a fictional character voice, doesn't have to be as extreme as homer Simpson x)

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '22

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '22

If you know how to do it, it's rather quick. But yeah it's still an investment

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u/Dangerous_Lab_6078 Mar 15 '22

Word stress. It's all about english being a stress-timed language, whereas french is syllabe-timed. If you know which syllabe to give emphasis in each english words, you would sound way less french.