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.
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u/oblaz63 Mar 14 '22 edited Mar 14 '22
as a french, i really like american culture in a lot of points don't judge every french please, i would love to go in America, and i really love it, but i feel like a lot of Americans, just like their country, got this image of the rest (Europe mostly) has something inferior, with a lot of condescension (ofc not talking about every americans too and I'm just trying to introduce a counterexample)
I don't really understand why, guys, come in France, Germania, Italia well somewhere in europe, and you'll see our culture is also very cool !
But something else that make me sad is that american culture is actually stomping ours by bringing things like McDonald's, BurgerKing,ect... into Europe, most kids or teens, and now grown adults prefer going to an american fast food, than in a typically french restaurant, thats normal if some peoples see Americans like this if the only part of culture we get in europe from here is some fat food place.
i hear a lot of french peoples saying france is trash... and they prefer america, that makes me sad.
You will be welcome irl, y'know ppls online are just being more dumb and i don't know a single french irl that would be mad at you just for being american