Why do France and America not get along
21stCenturyBoy
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I'm a British teenager with French ansesctory and have noticed that the Americans intensley dislike France, almost as much as the French intensley dislike the Americans. What is the root/ reason for all of this?
(and of course, I am speaking in general terms because it would have been too long and too wordy to point out that not all Americans and French people intensley dislike one and other)
(and of course, I am speaking in general terms because it would have been too long and too wordy to point out that not all Americans and French people intensley dislike one and other)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_%E2%80%93_United_States_relations
The Americans seem to be the exact opposite to that, for the most part.
They just seem to irritate each other.
For that matter does America?
Perhaps they recognise similar traits in each other?
Well they seem to get on ok with the Italians, but they are very easy going anyway.
They certainly don't like the British, that's for sure. Although at personal level, they seem not too bad.
and we don't like them, the cheese-eating surrender monkeys!
All of the French I've ever met seem to be lovely to me. But that may be cause I am not fully British :eek:
I think France generally get on well with other Mediterranean nations, and Switzerland, Belgium etc.
Not sure they're overly keen on the Germans, either tbh
I suspect many in America find it easier to describe themselves as being Christian rather than non religious.
More to do with their power.
Neither are we. That much we do have in common :cool:
I've found the americans lovely and the french have a superiority complex that everything french is superior to english products yet they couldn't tell the difference between Cantal and Cheddar.
Nail probably hit firmly on head
Exactly. The French actually fought with the Americans against the British, but the second France refuse to fight with the Americans again, they are branded "cowards". In the long run, France's desicion not to go to war in Iraq/ Afghanistan has benefited them, both on the national stage and in terms of their homeland security.
Maybe because of people like you. France doesn't hate the US more than the UK - it's stems from France leaning culturally to the EU and the UK to the USA. I remember there being a propaganda campaign in the US about the French being "Surrender Monkeys" - all the French did was reject the Iraq war... which was within their rights.
You know you've got a great point when you quote a yellow cartoon boy.
oh dont talk out of your keester.
http://www.amazon.com/Anti-Americanism-Jean-Francois-Revel/dp/1893554856
its a VERY long history of antiamericanism from france. long before even the surrender monkey thing came around.
like it or not the french still think they should act like a world power and cultural leader and the fact that they arent grinds their gears. the fact that anglo american culture and language reigns supreme really gets them going.
Germany?