What Americans Say About French are True? (French stereotypes from Americans)

Le mec a défendu notre pain et fromage avec honneur ce chad

I was in a bar in SF talking to girl , she was a lawyer (so highly educated) and when I said I was French, from the countryside, she asked me : “hoo, isn’t it too hard to live in those little castles without hot water…” seriously she thought we didn’t evolve since medieval times…

As an American, I never really held any stereotypes of French people until I made British friends. The Brits talk down about the French CONSTANTLY!

The sad thing is that people visit Paris and then form an opponion about the entire country based on that just one city not knowing that Paris doesn't equal to France. I've lived in France for the past 4 years (in the south and south west) and the only people who I can consider rude were occasional Parisians that I met here and there who BTW are considered to be rude and condesending towards the other departments as well (as stated in the video).

That stereotype of "Americans are smarter than the French" sounds like something the British started when they didn't score high enough on their exam and couldn't claim a win against the French!🤣🤣

You know they really are French when the one who doesn't live in Paris say the negative stereotypes come from Parisians :D Paris VS Province (the rest of the country) is a very real thing

I like how the stereotypes of the French being cowardly and the French Resistance being extremely brave can exist simultaneously.

We can see the french love for debate when they get up to speak 😅

Ils ont écris les prénoms n'importe comment dans les sous-titres, j'suis morte hahaha

Rudeness: Every French person I've ever met or interacted with has been friendly, even warm. They are direct but not German direct, but they are like Americans in that they keep the deep stuff close to the chest and are open with the surface stuff. Easy? No. Culturally, the French are very open when it comes to sex and intimacy, but again... surface vs. deep. Bread: The French have the baguette and the pain de mie, as well as other boules. The Danish have rugbrød. Sorry, Denmark. :) The cleaning part: Americans shower more than the French, but the French take baths more. Americans are less thorough (SOMETIMES) when they shower (eww), but the French are more thorough but maybe less often? It's a draw. *lol* We Americans are not stupid per se, but we can be very provincial/insular when it comes to anything outside the US. That needs to change.

Ils sortent vraiment de nulle part tous ces stéréotypes... surtout que des préjugés sur les Français y'en a pléthore franchement ! Du style : "Les français ne mangent que du pain tout le temps" est beaucoup plus logique que "Le Danemark fait du meilleur pain que la France" (mais, vraiment, qui connait le pain du Danemark... ?)

As a French person, I grew up taking baths everyday at 19 (7PM) and I'm still doing that today! I don't see how it's dirty: you don't get dirty overnight, but you do during the day. Taking a bath in the morning means you go to bed with all the day's dirt and that's disgusting to me. Also, I'm an au pair in the US currently and the kids don't take baths/showers everyday, for the youngest one, it's once a week even. But they change pajama every day when I don't so I guess I'm the dirty one!

I love my french compatriote, they fight stereotype about french with stereotype about american. Such a French thing to do 😂😂😂

LOL! Of course we all know internet stereotypes are wrong, but it’s fun to hear them discussed by the group and also see all the French together

The stereotype about soccer almost made me choke like wtf? And it's called football please. I like the first girl from the right she had such good arguments and clapbacks as she should

About the French being “easy”, in Quebec, we had a comedy group which wrote a sketch about French girls that went like this: “ J’suis comme le camembert, j’m’étends moins bien qu’j’en ai l’air” (I’m like camembert, I don’t spread as easily as I look”)

"Americans are smarter than french people" i've heard this stereotype before , i thought would the other way around usually

"We have Mbappe and did you watch the last WC, thank you bye. " Merci d'avoir mis les termes !!

As an American I can emphatically say that a majority of the country is America-centric. Some people barely know other continents let alone basic geography 😂

Tips for Americans visiting France: before convincing yourself we are any rude, please try greeting people, shopkeepers, waiters, staffs etc. anywhere you go before asking anything. Sometimes it's just a matter of culture differences, politeness in France is very important and greeting first is a must-do unless you want to get bombastic side eyes 🥲 bidding farewell is also expected. And not being loud in public space, especially indoors and in public transportations. Not saying no French is rude, but the stereotype is stretched af