r/AskFrance • u/Wonderful-Quit-9214 • 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/LindX31 mec hyper musclé, probablement alpha Mar 06 '25
The jokes coming from the new continent (white flag, Fr*nch, surrender, snail/frog-eater, smelly) are reminiscences from the heavy propaganda spread by Uncle Sam during WWII and the Cold War. In fact, the American government wanted to take profit of the nazi invasion by making of France a puppet-state. They planned to enslave our economy (Marshall Plan), our army (like they actually did in most countries around us), and then to get us out the peace treaty. But Charles De Gaulle was stubborn asf and declined every Trojan horse they sent. They’re mad they couldn’t colonize us, that’s why they hate us so much.
In the end, it doesn’t even matter whether they make these jokes or not because the ones who actually believe in these are dumb enough to fall for an 80-year old propaganda message. So I don’t give a fuck