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Anti British and Anti French views
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I was going to comment further, but I'll refrain out of some semblance of self-respect.
Sadly, often true.
To get back on topic, I've often wondered about the oddly bad reputation the French seem to have in the USA. I mean, relations between the two countries have been mostly friendly ever since its foundation, they were allies in the two World Wars and more recently, France is also participating in Afghanistan.
It's really puzzling to me. France seems to be a country oddly unpopular while I come from a country that should be immensely unpopular but is instead oddly popular. I don't get it.
Most of Yank anti-French sentiment seems to stem from De Gaulle's position re: NATO and recent opposition to the more-recent Iraq war from what I can tell. When I was younger I only remember vague notions of them being arrogant twats and not too good when it came to fighting World Wars. I always thought it quite big of them to decline Ike's offer to nuke Vietnam, myself.
Yes, Iraq was the latest outbreak but this anti-French resentment has to be older than that, considering how fast it came out and how the focus was on France not being convinced that Iraq had WMDs, when other countries were equally against the war getting a UN mandate.
NATO is a good point, although it seems to me like more of a technicality and an odd thing to get upset over. Besides, France rejoined eventually.
NATO is a good point, although it seems to me like more of a technicality and an odd thing to get upset over. Besides, France rejoined eventually.
the French: smelly, rude, arrogant.
the British: tea-drinking bowler-hat wearers with bad teeth.
the Germans: efficient. humourless. organised.
the Italians. pizza-eating gangsters.
the Spanish: lazy bullfighters
Dutch: eat cheese, smoke dope and wear clogs. oh, and live in windmills.
Swedes: sex-mad flat-pack furniture sellers.
swiss: bankers with cuckoo clocks.
any stereotypes i left out?
oh, yeah, the Greeks: swarthy plate-smashers.
the British: tea-drinking bowler-hat wearers with bad teeth.
the Germans: efficient. humourless. organised.
the Italians. pizza-eating gangsters.
the Spanish: lazy bullfighters
Dutch: eat cheese, smoke dope and wear clogs. oh, and live in windmills.
Swedes: sex-mad flat-pack furniture sellers.
swiss: bankers with cuckoo clocks.
any stereotypes i left out?
oh, yeah, the Greeks: swarthy plate-smashers.
I'm part French 'Huguenot' - That part of my family came to London in the 1800s because France were killing us. - I wonder; Who else has heard of the plight of French Huguenot? - Not that I'm bitter or anything, but those people, the French Huguenots, seem to have gone largely undocumented here.
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The British will always be NUMBER ONE over the French in my book. And I'll admit, being of British ancestory, I am a bit biased in that opinion.
The French just let the Nazis march in on their country without so much as putting up a fight or firing off a shot. Because of those actions, or in-actions, that pretty much defines the true nature, character, and mentality of the French, period.
No wonder the Allies had to pull the French's fat out of the fire.
The French just let the Nazis march in on their country without so much as putting up a fight or firing off a shot. Because of those actions, or in-actions, that pretty much defines the true nature, character, and mentality of the French, period.
No wonder the Allies had to pull the French's fat out of the fire.
Mon dieu. There were over 2 million casualties on the allied side after the invasion of France, that's hardly doing nothing.
Probably a lot of people. Many of them settled in Prussia and some still insist on the French pronunciation of their family names.
I highly doubt that, given the high quality of historical research in the UK. There are probably a number of books about it out there.
Jon Pertwee also stems from a Huguenot family but they changed their name from 'de Perthuis' to Pertwee. So, it seems a lot of people are aware of their Huguenot heritage.
My Ancestors on my father's side are all British, even one Danish man is realated to us because he married an English woman, which is all well and good, but, for years, I always thought I was part Danish, until I was told, I descend from his English wife's sister... Which actually makes more sense.
I'm dirty blonde with blue eyes - that seems to be a family trait, but then, so is dark hair and blue eyes, but I, like a sister of mine, got dirty blonde and blue eyes, I'm/we're Anglo Saxon/Welsh, my mother's maiden name is an English name that has Norwegian origins, in the Midlands... so I'm part Viking, even though that's older than dirt, my Ancestry is a mixed European and of that it's largly English and Welsh. - But I was born in London and am British.
As I said before, I am also part French Huguenot - I believe they fled France to French Huguenot settlement in Stockwell, and that's why I'm part French, on my mother's mother's side. - Which is also the same side of me that's Welsh.My father's ancesters, are actually all English, and have statues and works of art baught by the late Michael Jackson, and one of them was knighted by Queen Victoria, so I dare say, that side of my heritage was probably once a Red Coat. lol
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Well, I'm biased too.
But I think the rest needs a little bit of further research/reading...
But I was born in London and am British.
Thank god you reminded us, we'd almost forgotten. It's not like you mention it in nearly every post.
As long as no one thinks I was born in Manchester...
What's wrong with Manches-torrrrrrr?
But I was born in London and am British.
Prove it.
Go on, prove it.
You have a basic ability of the English language at best, you're also far from knowledgeable of history, so prove it.
Unless you're a teenager and then all the above can be easily explained.
oh and yeah, rule Britannia, Britannia rules the waves and all that xenophobic BNP shite.
