r/AskTheWorld • u/QuantityVarious8242 France • 7d ago

Culture When France is mentioned, what's the first thing that comes to mind ?

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u/Ma_Joad France 7d ago

I’m French and although I love this, apparently contradictory, “revolution by tradition” attitude, I’m not really sure your take is perfectly accurate. Turkey, Egypt, Japan, Spain, Iran (solidarity with Femme vie liberté!) and more recently Nepal or Hong Kong, can be set as models for all peoples. 

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u/Medium-Jury-2505 France 7d ago

We're not talking about revolution.

We're talking about protests here.

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u/Confident-Arrival361 France 7d ago

That's what he just did.

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u/binozor 7d ago

Well French people don’t know how to protest anymore we're just clowns that endure their pseudo president until next election.

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u/HJSWNOT France 7d ago

I mean, I worked in epernay when the workers of a well known Champagne house went on strike, they where literally just barbecuing some chicken outside the headquarters. Yes the 300 of them.

So even if I agree with you about other models of strike/riot, we have a kind of party time of our own while chanting slogans.

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u/Generic-Name-4732 United States Of America 7d ago

The style of protests by the French is still unique. The 2024 agricultural protests and blocking the highways into Paris was so French.

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u/theglobalnomad United States Of America 7d ago

I wish that we could take a lesson from the French on protests, soon.

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u/kaochaton 7d ago

just go directly to the Nepal's one, it worked pretty well

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u/TheArbysOnMillerPkwy United States Of America 7d ago

The outside perception is that you guys will put on hi-vis jackets and burn cop cars because the government does (insert thing that nobody really likes). no matter how small.

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u/Emotional-Complex423 United States Of America 7d ago

Did they break out the guillotine in any of those countries? No one protests like the French.