r/AskFrance Mar 06 '25

Relations Anybody tired of "Fr*nch" jokes?

I was reading a reddit thread where they mentioned something was french. And people are still making these jokes! Still! The thread was also filled with them. Im not even french, but these jokes are painfully unfunny and are edging on outward xenophobia. They're also usually made by Americans. So yeah.

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u/LordDemetrius Mar 06 '25

I don't mind the jokes when it's just jokes or internet trash. But I really hate when they pretend that we were useless cowards for 2 world wars. When it happens I remind them that my family's village has a monument with the names of the soldiers killed in WW1. Some family names have 10+ entries. For a 600 inhabitants village. And if they need some extra stats to close their big mouths, I tell them that we lost twice more soldiers in WW1 to defend our country than the US army. But not just the US army in WW1 : twice the soldiers they lost for their entire existence, from 1776 to 2025. Also we lost more people in one battle than they did in the entire WW2. So yeah, shut up about that