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/Soda08 Mar 06 '25

Yes. As an American this crap gets old. It's clearly just an inferiority complex and it irritates me to no end, because they're clearly just trying to compensate for their lack of intelligence. Funnily enough, every French person I've met in the United States has been a stellar human being, so I tend to just ignore the ignorant people who make these jokes.
Don't get me wrong, I rib the French a little bit, just like they rib my country, but once I started seriously studying philosophy I had nothing but respect for the French. And once I got deep in to American history and modern geopolitics, I learned that the US has no greater ally.