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Cool shades. Shame about the feces on them, though.

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Those are what you meant, right?

The French are insufferable but very entertaining so I love you guys.

Same, only no one hates the Basque because they fear our space internship program.

Yeah but fuck Americans when they criticise France. They're not allowed.

Slur? Pfft, they're our auld pals!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auld_Alliance

Its mostly for fun and not seriouse.

Germany and france had the Erbfeindschaft (french-german enmity), a rivalery whoms origin you can trace back all the way to the splitting of the franconian empire or even way back to roman empire times. Because romans vs germanic tribes, and the bor

England and france have something similair due to the hundred years war shenanigans.

Spain and Austria and france due to the Habsburgs and French Kingdom having always been at each others throats for dominance over europe

Russia and France due to Napoleon

The dutch and the french due to the Kingdom of Burgundy and Napoleon

Italy and france could be traced back to romans vs gauls but defenetly also has to do with the italian wars, papal shenanigans like the whole avignion popes and constantly interfearing in papal state situations

I do not know of any more actually proper rivaleries with the france. Today its all jokes and giggles, italy and france only culturally are in a friendly rivalery, germany and france have one of the tightes friendships and is now the franco german friendship :) (im just saying ARTE) I am german and we germans can learn a lot from france, especially cultural wise lots of things i admire about the french people. <3

Continuons à œuvrer pour une Europe unie et pacifique!

I’m English and I was driving through Europe and ended up in France. I was at a petrol station and when a new cashier opened up and everybody behind me in the queue just walked past me to the new. I was sort of stood there in shock waiting for someone to let me go in front of them before I suddenly remembered and I was like “Oh yeah, I’m in France”.

I am french so super biased, but I think the joke is that nobody really hates the French so we're eligible to be joke-hated.

Turns out rampaging through the Netherlands, the Rhineland principalities, northern Italy, the Balkans, Austria, Prussia, Poland, Russia, Egypt, Spain, and Portugal in the span of 20 years earns you some longstanding animosity.

The English have tainted the English-speaking world's views on mainland Europe. Plus, the French lack of immediate support after 9/11 also started a wave of French hate. The infamous "freedom fries" stuff. Then, it's rare for the average American to meet real French people and disabuse Americans of stereotypes. Which, to be fair, aren't exactly wrong...in Paris. Once you get out in the country the French are generally pretty chill. New Yorkers aren't exactly universally friendly either, so it's sorry of a double standard IMO.

In my experiences as a German visiting France a few times they are more pretentious about speaking french.

I feel like in other countries people care less about me not speaking their native language, most often we both just speak english and everything is fine.

And even if neither of us speaks any language of the other I feel people are more willing to communicate with hands and feet. In France they just look at you annoyed and hope you go away.

Napoleon. Also punching up is acceptable mostly.

It's an old joke I guess. I'm French and I don't know why though. It give me an excuse to pretend I'm better than everyone else, everyone laughs, it's the point of the meme I guess, no need to think about it further.

in Canada, we pretend hate anything about Toronto... but it's just a running joke, except the Leafs, they do suck for real

Americans who identify as Irish were granted their privileges in society/ heirarchy by breaking their ties with the native/Indians and the black man/woman. They often became everything the people of Ireland fought to oppose.

There’s a book called How the Irish became White that deals with this.