Top Ten Reasons for being French

1. When speaking fast you can make yourself sound gay

2. You can be a crook and still be president
3. You get to eat insect food like snails and frog's legs
4. If there's a war you can surrender really early
5. You don't have to read the subtitles on those late night films on Channel 4.
6. You can test your own nuclear weapons in other people's countries
7. You can be ugly and still become a famous film star
8. Allow Germans to march up and down your most famous street without losing your sense of national pride
9. You don't have to bother with toilets, just shit in the street
10. People think you're a great lover even when you're not

Anyone else got any good reasons for being French?

 

1 reason for being a dick .
1.your racist

 

well that sucks..

 

1. le lange de francais est beau
2. l'estas unis est merde
3. le chocolat et croisants sont bons
4. guerre est mal
5. les films d'americain sont stupides de temps de temps
6. regardez le petit film dans www.truemajority.org
7. les celebres americains ne beau pas
8. les allemonds etients arrogants
9. le france est beaucoup plus propre que la plupart des pays
10. les hommes ne sont pas grands amoureux

being french is a hell of a lot better than being you

 

i don't think french is actually a race per se, but..yeah

frenchies are way cool. like flannery. :H

 

2. Not knowing the difference between a race and a nation therefore causing tension where there is none

 

You're british, dude...france owns you.

 

They did try

Napolionic war
Agincourt

But failed

Unlike Germany who takes over France for a laugh every so often

ps.didn't we invent you guys

 

See the difference?

 

over the years of having a complete dick as a french teacher, i have come to have an irrational dislike of france, even though i know its not a bad place.

also, i find these little lists quite amusing. keep 'em comin'!

 

I've had serious static in France, but let me say this.

Though I almost got in a full-on bar brawl in Cergy-Le-Haut I have this to say..

1) The French have their priorities right. Beautiful women, great food, nice clothes. Better to live in a shoebox but look, feel and eat good. It isn't about having two cars, a bigger house, more money than the guy next door compete compete compete.

2) Did I mention the food? OK so they learned how to cook from the Italians, but still. Damn. Eat at a five star place and you'll understand just how incredible food can be.

3) The French have it right. They manage to hit the right balance of appreciating someone in a physical way without being creepy. Ladies, you know what I'm talking about. Getting an appreciative glance at your body is one thing. Being leered at is another. And it works the other way, too - the women appreciate the men.

4) You'll rarely see a French person who's just slobbing around. They look after themselves. Even the poor folks.

5) The language is beautiful. From a standpoint of aesthetics, and grammar.

6) There have been some amazing works done by the French. Les Miserables is a great book. Degas really knew how to work those pastels.

7) They really care about politics. They will debate it endlessly. When there's an election not only does everyone vote but everyone takes the time to find out who's running and exactly what each person stands for. They don't just say "well person X is a Christian like me, who cares if he's a Nazi." Or have a near 50% turnout, and those that do show up are one-issue extremists.

8) The true cradle of modern democracy is France. Though the Terror really arsed a lot of things up there's something to be said for people saying "OK that's ENOUGH" and storming the King and the Bastille, and setting up a Constitution and a democracy. They exported it to the USA - and are largely uncredited with assisting the Americans take out the Brits. This has a great deal to do with #7.

9) Wine. Though you'd think it falls in with food, er, no.

10) Who can argue with a country that practically instituted a two hour lunch break?

 

Yeah France has more room to run away

 

As a troll in recovery, let me just say I feel sorry for you JR.,

 

Despite all my France bashing, I really like French people.

I don't like a lot of French politics, especially when they call the US empirialists when they're the only European power still colonizing parts of Africa. That and maybe some white guys who own a golf course in South Africa.

They've also made large portions of Niger and other nations baron because of overfarming. The French are also the cheif architects of EU agricultural export subsidies which do more to keep Africa poor then any other force.

I really don't mind what the French are doing in Africa now either, they're at least trying a little bit to end ethnic strife in Congo and bring some stability to the region.

I just find it hilarious that after all of their actions, they'd call us imperialist because they didn't go into a war only after they had trade negotioations to see how much of the oil they bought off Hussein they could keep. If Bush had hit the magic number of oil to give to the EU, Schroder and Chirac would have been happy to go along with the US.

All that aside though, I really do like French people, they're usually really cool, it's an interesting language, and they have good food. It's just some French people I've meet seemed really ethnocentric. Like within 5 minutes of meeting me they'd start telling me everything they didn't like about the US. Like I'm calling the shots anyway.

I don't find French people off the street and say, 'hey, real good job supporting Chinas anti-secession law and trying to lift their arms embargo. Way to spread Democracy champ.'

'And you're wine is way overpriced for average grape booze.'

Cause it's rude.

For the most part, French people are great, I've just meet a couple real annoying French people these past few months, and I feel like bitching.

 

RE: don't like a lot of French politics, especially when they call the US empirialists when they're the only European power still colonizing parts of Africa. That and maybe some white guys who own a golf course in South Africa.

I once stopped an anti-Iraq war diatribe with two words: "Ivory Coast". But the truth is everyone has his or her own skeleton in the closet - bear witness to Canada being lambasted by the South Africans for their treatment of Native Canadians in response to some criticism of their government by Mulroney.

RE: I just find it hilarious that after all of their actions, they'd call us imperialist because they didn't go into a war only after they had trade negotioations to see how much of the oil they bought off Hussein they could keep. If Bush had hit the magic number of oil to give to the EU, Schroder and Chirac would have been happy to go along with the US.

Don't forget that without Hussein funding Chirac's campaign, Chirac would be in jail right now. As it stands he won the election so he will leave the Presidency after the statute of limitations expires on his embezzlements......

RE: It's just some French people I've meet seemed really ethnocentric. Like within 5 minutes of meeting me they'd start telling me everything they didn't like about the US. Like I'm calling the shots anyway.

Jingoism is everywhere. We need to start thinking of ourselves as citizens of the planet, man.

RE: For the most part, French people are great, I've just meet a couple real annoying French people these past few months, and I feel like bitching.

If you really want to get angry, work for them. Everyone I've ever known who's worked for a French company (who wasn't French) had a near-heart attack and attacks of rage. I don't know what the deal is with French management techniques but they somehow take the worst of old-boy nepotism with bureaucratic stagnation and add in a healthy dose of xenophobia. But then again YMMV.

I like the French - but I think the best policy is to steer clear of personal and professional politics.

 

if you were derogitary against those of pakistani origin, your racist. pakistan is a country, as is france.

 

1066, the battle of hastings.

 

Technically, hating Asian people would make you racist. Pakistani isn't a race, and neither is french. There are only three races White, Black, and Asian.

All that aside, not liking french people means you have anti-french sentiments. But he wasn't even saying that, he was joking. Not every joke about someone elses culture makes you a racist. What you said is like saying everyone who makes a lawyer joke is an anarchist.

Everyones an ethnocentrist. Ethnocentrism means looking at the world from the perspective of your own culture, and it's something all cultures have in common.

People shouldn't take their culture too seriously.

 

note: i know it was joclingly said, but i was commenting on the 'its not racist as they're not a race' theme.


whilst you are correct in identifying that it is technically not racist, ion practise, it is. just because its not the fully correct term, doesnt mean its not commonly used in that sense, and that its not ok to use it in that sense.

 

only if your of non asian descent
France is a mainly europeon carcasion as is England therefore to denouce them on anything other than nationality/culture would in theory be denouceing yourself

Or on the other hand you could say France is now as many country's made up of all creds and colours therefore it would be impossible to denouce them solely on race

either way it's not racist to take the mick out of a nation

The only instance in which your theory works I can see is with the jews who are both a nation and a race and a religion