What are the customs and beliefs of the french?
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From my experience, it is being rude and/or stupid. My girlfriend and I were traveling in the French countryside and stopped for lunch. We didn't speak French, but asked for "Le Menu". The waitress just starred at us. We pantomimed reading a menu and asked again. She just stared at us. She went and got her manager. He just stared at us. Finally I pointed to another table which had their menus. "Oh, La Carte", he said. He came back with a menu. Printed across the cover in big goldleaf it said "MENU". What's up with that????????
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Cultural mores and tradition.
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The French.  The country as a whole is not only arrogant, overconfident and ungrateful, but extremely hypocritical. There is the freakishly strong socialist government that, despite the protests and riots, the French seem to love, evident by the sheer number of civil servants. But what it really comes down to is that the French as a whole, have a pathetic work ethic.  The 35 hour work week, one of the lowest, if not the lowest in Europe, cripples the French production capabilities.  The job for life means that no matter how bad of an employee you are you can't be fired.  Anyone who has ever had to work with a French government agency, even as simple as the post office, knows that it takes absolutely ages to get anything done, because of the huge volume of paperwork that accompanies everything, and the fact that the employees work excruciatingly slow.  In the end though, France has so many problems, it hardly matter what their biggest problem is! FYI - the April 1st Economist had some interesting articles about this very question.
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Cette question n'est pas justifiée, pour gagner il faut y croire. On est tous derrière l'équipe de France pour le meilleur et pour le pire.\nAllez les bleus!!!!!
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la France gagnera , sur et certain
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These are our most important traditions concerning special holidays during the year.\n\nhttp://www.czechheritage.net/nameday.html\n\nCzech republic is a country of many traditions, usually based on superstitions, for example eating a specific food on a specific day may either bring you luck or troubles. People in small villages usually use things such as flowers to predict the future, for example girls try to foretell when will they get married and what shall their husband be like...
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That is a tough one...\n\nDuring that period there was a massive migration of French Canadian towards the USA and they mainly landed in Long Island, Conneticut, Main, New Hampshire....\n\nThere is a Franco American association I beleive that have strong historical base knowledge, they could have such a list and may even guide you towards finding a listing for the rest of those living in the Dominion of Canada....\n\nYou can also find leads in cultural or ethnical associations such as:\nIrish, Scotts, Russians and others groups that came under persecutions such as religious association that really stay in contact and have such listing... Such as the Coptic Church, Greeks, Armenians ( and specify if it was from Turkey, Libanon or ex: USSR)...\n\nI personally have native blood from Iroquois ancestry... so.. I've travelled in the different reservations between Ontario, Quebec and NY state....
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la france question idiote
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si c leur tradition y ont qu'a le faire dans leur vestiaire..devant une glace, ca leur rappelera les boites de nuit ...
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All depends on the what that person identifies themself as.  If they think they're still French, they're French.  If they think they're of the US than that's how it is.  Now the question is do we accept their identity or do we judge them as something else?
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French sentences, grammar, phrases, vocabulary like\n\nBonjour, est-ce que, ils, elles, oui, non\n\nHope you get the job!
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Pourqoui est toutes chose en anglais?\n\n<_< So people, such a tourists, or immigrants can understand what they are buying.\n\nWe are a melting pot, after all.
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Talk about how the French people were oppresed, how they suffered, and how, like the American colonists, they needed to rebel. ex:  "The French people before the time of the Revolution were poor and starving.  The king and queen ignoreed the peoples' struggles, and so to save themselves, the French people had to rebel."  That is from my report that I did in fourth grade (I live in France, so I know a lot about the Revolution).
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Don't give a damn, you "king".\nBe careful if you talk about a king to a French, you'll be beheaded lol
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I can list some stereotypes of French people:\n\nThey smell\nThey don't shave their underarms\nThey're rude/snobby\nThey hate americans\n\nThe truth is, when I went to France two years ago, most of the French people there were very nice and curteous. If you smile at them, they smile back. One man even came running out of a restaurant to bring me my jacket that I had left in there. All of the americans I came across were rude. Go figure?\n\nOh, and a lot of them don't shave their underarms. And yes, they do smell a little bit.
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hmmm thats strange. i've never heard that one before. Maybe it is just your friend who is a racist and not all French people. You should teach him that that is not cool or stop hanging out with someone that is racist, so he knows its not acceptable to have such views....
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Ask France.  Assuming you and they still speak French.\n\nRoch cop:  Liberals have trouble with what the definitions of is is, and apparently also was was.