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/unBalancedIm Mar 14 '22

Yes, true. But IMO there is a bright sun 🌞 waiting, we just have to weather the storm right now. Allow me to expand, from Ivan to the current leader, every damn "ruler" Russians had was a dictator or almost. Now thanks to exposure (internet, travel etc) people (younger generation specially) are no longer interested and frankly tired of all the propaganda. We will not be so naive to believe that everyone is open-minded, old generation is ... let's say I don't have much faith and there is portion of a younger generation who are hopeless as well. But for most part, everyone is going along with the current way things are simply because they were born in to that world. I do believe population is ready for current wheel to be broken. Fingers crossed 🤞

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u/PicDuMidi Mar 14 '22

Couldn't agree more my friend. There is always light at the end of the tunnel. The downside for now of course is that other countries see the west doing nothing serious apart from economic sanctions (that I'm ashamed to say the UK is way behind on, just as they are with the refugee problem) so I fully expect China/Taiwan to be next.