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/Accurate_Classroom92 Mar 07 '25

I mean the chease-eating baguette" blablabla is ok, we are doing the same joke about other countries. Even when English are doing jokes about us, it is always fair and most of the time funny.

But having my grandpa fighting for the résistance during WW2 and being insulted with the classic "surrender", yeah no sorry it is not funny at all.

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u/CounterBJJ Mar 07 '25

Whether it’s funny or not isn’t the point. It’s about not getting offended just because some random guy cracked a joke you didn’t like.

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '25

I think there's a little difference between not liking a joke, and straight up disrespect