Thread: Do Americans really hate the French?

I always thought is was the other way around.

I dont hate the French, but ive always thought of them as having just a really, really strange society.

no.

im sure theres a few but most americans dont hate any race

I absolutely hate the French Government. As for the French. Hmmm, it use to be that I blindly looked up to them for their adventurous, zest for life and artistic flare for things. Then I got my bubble burst while spending lot of time In Europe and in and around the Med. and resort areas. I was so disappointed. There was a huge hatred even back then for Americans and a "snotty" disposition. Gone was the pretense of having a higher philosophical standard and in its place I saw wicked jealousy, pettiness, scorn for a lot of other people, deliberately rude behavior in restaurants and all manner of other things. I particularly recall an incident I saw a few times. While in Ireland staying at Ashford Castle I watched three Frenchmen set up a very descent English wine sommelier. They were dining next to me and my new wife in the ultra formal dining room. What they did was very very uncool. They ordered a very rare vintage and waited for the sommelier to open it and serve it up. Then after they all tasted it and drank 3/4 of the bottle they call him over and say with huge grins "sir, this wine is completely rubbish and inadequate." The sommelier takes out his tasting spoon and tries it and you can tell by his expression he knows these guys are playing a game and that the wine is fine. So he is polite and says, of course, there is a subtle bitterness of cork that should not be present - we accept responsibility. He then goes back to get a different vintage that they ordered (on the house) and these guys just start going into hysterics and speaking French and we could understand what they were saying. They basically called him a fat English buffoon and deserving to be taken advantage of for being so gullable. They just sat there all night and drank, ate, and made jokes about the English. I came close to walking over and laying into them.
On other occasions my French Hotel reservations suddenly became unavailable when I showed up to check in and they determined I was American.

So, I guess the answer is I see the French as more rude and more inhospitable than most Americans and that means we have moved up quite a bit and they are going way down in the social pecking order. The English & the Irish and the Spanish in particular seem to hit it off well with Americans. The Germans are so-so and are cool if you don't push too deeply into subjects that are sensitive and can be very stern - but open up to gestures of hospitality. The Canadians are very cool - especially out in Alberta where you'd swear they were American Cowboys and the most polite and descent people on the planet. Even the Middle Easterners seem to be mostly cool with the American people in general (unless you get into the real deep cultured small places that are pretty much off limits to westerners and even certain sects of their own race). The Asians all seem to like us a lot as do the Aussies. The Italians and the Poles think we are very cool. The Hungarians and Romanians seem very OK with us also. The Scandinavians are OK once you realize they have no sense of humor and just like to talk and drink and suck on salmon. Not interacted with too many Russians but the ones I have seem to love us and like a good time. The only ones that seem to be on the bottom of the barrel are the French and you know - I just don't seem to care for them anymore and am not sure I really ever did.

OD

Originally Posted by ihateschoolmt

im sure theres a few but most americans dont hate any race

Where have you been?

Oui Oui, Bon bons

I like french women, not the hairy kind.

Originally Posted by Robert DiMaggio

I always thought is was the other way around.

Not only Americans, I have met only a few nice french people.

that's what pisses me off about the world. so many hate us, but we would be the first one they go to in a pinch.

we most likely would help them, too. there's no respect.

from what I've been told french people are rude, but most countries in comparison are rude to tourists whereas americans we love our tourists cuz we like to feel people want to be here. This is pretty much hearsay though- I've spoken to people who have met french people, lived with french people, and even lived in france and they all say the same thing, but I've only met 1 french person myself and she was very nice. smelled a bit though.

I hate them. Ive been to ever European country but France, which I treated as infested by plague and surrounded by concertina wire. I like the fucking A-rabs more then I like the French. Furthermore, they all smell!..................Rich

Originally Posted by Rich46yo

I hate them. Ive been to ever European country but France, which I treated as infested by plague and surrounded by concertina wire. I like the fucking A-rabs more then I like the French. Furthermore, they all smell!..................Rich

Have to agree on the smell thing. But in all fairness the Europeans in general stink to high heaven and have BO. My god it can get ripe in the airports and trainstations in Europe. I think that few bath but once a week.
OD

Yeah and lotsa luck finding a French woman with no hair on her legs. I hear the place is like a re-run of "Planet of the Apes"..........Rich

Pas je!! J'aime les français!! D'ailleurs Rich, non tout le mauvais français d'odeur de personnes. Vous semblez faire beaucoup de stéréotype.

^^^ this is true - The only thing worse is when you are walking on a side street between the shops and all of a sudden they will stop walking, squat on the pavement in high heels and evening dress and urinate or defecate in the street. They rarely wear underwear and they seem to take pride in showing you they have a bush that looks as thick as Spanish moss on an oak tree.

But you will get physically sick when you get them home, lay them out in bed and you push their arms up over their head to take their sweaters off. You will get an instant shot of armpit BO and more arm pit hair than an American linebacker has. It can be a challenge to rise to such an occasion...


OD

Originally Posted by OceanDude

all of a sudden they will stop walking, squat on the pavement in high heels and evening dress and urinate or defecate in the street.

I hope that's an exaggeration

Originally Posted by Rocky_Road

Pas je!! J'aime les français!! D'ailleurs Rich, non tout le mauvais français d'odeur de personnes. Vous semblez faire beaucoup de stéréotype.

But rocky its not exactly sterotype - its very common.
OD

Originally Posted by busyLivin

I hope that's an exaggeration

Nope. happens a lot.
OD

Originally Posted by OceanDude

But rocky its not exactly sterotype - its very common.
OD

Je conviens, il est commun, mais il dit toutes les français sentent le mauvais, et pas tous . Je dirai cependant que les habitants à Paris sont pour la plupart le
joli méchant, mais, si vous allez à un quelconque des petites villes de province, tout le peuple est très gentil.

Désolé, mon Français est un peu rouillé. Espérez ce compris.

Originally Posted by OceanDude

Nope. happens a lot.
OD

I have only seen that type of thing in Paris.

Throw a "poo-Butt" in the mix and you really have a living nightmare....... ..........Rich

Originally Posted by OceanDude

^^^ this is true - The only thing worse is when you are walking on a side street between the shops and all of a sudden they will stop walking, squat on the pavement in high heels and evening dress and urinate or defecate in the street. They rarely wear underwear and they seem to take pride in showing you they have a bush that looks as thick as Spanish moss on an oak tree.

But you will get physically sick when you get them home, lay them out in bed and you push their arms up over their head to take their sweaters off. You will get an instant shot of armpit BO and more arm pit hair than an American linebacker has. It can be a challenge to rise to such an occasion...


OD