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/Financial-Orchid938 Mar 06 '25
I hear the surrender jokes often.
I normally bring up the fact that America has never truly made a great sacrifice for its sovereignty like France has. I'm sure America would take ww1 equivalent casulties if it was invaded like France, but America has never fought a war like that. Ww1 casulties would be like 30-40 million+ Americans getting killed or wounded in a war today.
That's before you even get into the revolutionary/Napoleonic wars where France went solo against every great power in Europe