If the USA no longer like the french....?
918390
No one really knows why they were called french fries in the first place, since they were invented in America.  It is very obvious we had them longer than the french, just walk down a city street in america and try to find a girl to pick up, then do the same thing in france!  I will bet you anything the french girl will get picked up first, mainly because her legs won't make noise from rubbing together when she walks.  And as far as hypocrites go, look who leads our country!  He has a campaign against drugs, yet did cocaine, and he is pondering starting a draft, when he himself went awol during the Nam.  now that i have said that, i realize how sad we are, i think i'm goign to move!  how hard is it to get a visa in France?
77940
That's good to hear, enough countries hate us already and to be honest, i dont ever think to myself " who doesnt like America" i instead think "who does like American". We are really hated thanks to our government when really Americans themselves (most) are very nice family people.
414077
Faut pas généraliser ! C'est vrai quand-même que beaucoup d'Américains ont une opinion sur tout sans bouger de leur sofa..FoX TV is GOD !\n\nIt's a love- hate relationship. When I read above - forgot the name , fitzstg- immediately the book "60 million Frenchmen can't be wrong" came to my mind...and it was linked as a source !\n\nBoundaries..what is personal and what is not..we have different notions. People do not understand this concept.\nI would never ever say "I hate such and such nationality" myself. I might dislike a mentality but the person comes first.\n\nIn my view, Americans tend - ON THE WHOLE - to view things as black and white/wrong- right. No shades of grey, no in-between. If you look up answers here, most tend to be : no way or yes....not "depends on the situation..etc".\n\nEuropeans view life and human beings as much more complex than than. Germany and France were enemies for such a long time.....but now they certainly are NOT.\n\nI think some Americans should see what life is all about in Europe. Coming from Northern France, we all look and have respect towards each other. Germans and French will put flowers on cemetaries and we all respect each other. The past is the past. I have yet to view or hear about confrontations between the French and German folks in "sensitive" areas.\n\nI hate those stereotypes too.....especially those which are offending and totally wrong and made from ignorant people on top of that.\n\nForget the stupid people. I have met enough absolutely brilliant, charming, open-minded anglo-saxon people !\n\nThere are always things to learn from another culture too !\n\nYou know..at the end I still don't know !! What I have noticed is that the media in North America is still very much conservative. OK I'm a girl (well..no more) but when I pick up magazines for women from the US.......so boring..the French ones: at least stg interesting !!\n\nBy the way : British people are not stuck up at all !!\n\nNope..I like Americans anyway :-). They have a zest for life, they can be brilliant..Pity too many are "child-like" and not very world-wise and kind of stuck in the past as well ?? Don't forget : so many just do not travel at all and just watch stupid propanganda TV.\n\nBut are the French better ?? On some things yes..but not all ! They are the same : too many think - old generations anyway - that they are better than the rest of the world..NOT ! and say the same things "I hate Americans, Brits etc" without knowing any actually !\n\nBon cela va être à mon tour de me faire crucifier. Il y a plein de cons partout : en France, en Amérique, partout..\n\nPS.. and I do not know what is so good about Frenchmen..either !! Just another stereotype among others. Frenchmen are no better than any other nationalities at all :-))) EH EH !
504743
Of course the same issues will arise. They don't respect the United States as a sovereign country. They feel they should be able to just walk around doing what they please on our soil because they hate whites.
877011
Not just the French, pal. We British think you are brash, arrogant and generally ignorant of the world beyond the USA's frontiers.
341820
A pie made out of a french should taste like shitt. I think congress wouldn't like to eat to much shitt anyway, I mean apart from the one they've already had to swallow from the Bush administration.
1122658
The bigger question: What happened to France.
1071383
USA wouldn't exist had it not been for the help from France to fight against the British. Before you slam France you should return the Statue of Liberty back to the French, because they are the ones that made it and gave it to USA.
664787
The French seem to forget that they (and all of Europe) would be called "Germany" and would be ruled by Nazis today if American's had not gotten involved in WW2.  They hate everything about America- ironically.  I think it is beyond snobbery.
1071269
Yes - give the UN to the French
784529
You're cute to ask this question. I also feel bad about reading such insulting comments. I think that there are very mixed feeling between French and American people. I read that this sometimes difficult relationship is due to the fact that both countries have a more universalist culture than others, which explains that international positions are very important in both countries and that opposition between them is often very harsh.\n\nI think criticizing each other can be a mean to improve for both countries, but only if everybody recognize the qualities of the other and if people stop insulting each other. Insults are just stupid and useless
193611
Do you really think the US beaurocrats and politicians would allow that to happen?  We aren't a super power because we sit back and twiddle our thumbs while others beat us out on something.  We'd find some reason to sanction them long before they surpassed us.
355361
Yes they did, primarily because they moved further away from the United Kingdom. Canada had originally been a colony, but over time they have become more and more independent, along with the rest of the Commonwealth countries. WWII marked a very fast decline in the British Empire. \n\nCanadians are very sensitive about the subject, and survey after survey shows that there is a lot of anti-American bias among Canadians. The French Canadians harbor their main resentment against the English Candians, but in English Canada, their "conservatives" are more apt to like the US, and their "liberals" (American definition) are more apt to dislike the US (Ha! just as American liberals/Democrats are apt to dislike the US!) Western Canada is by and large conservative and very comfortable with Americans. But, the fact remains that Canadians are very similar to Americans, much moreso than they are to any other country, so it's sort of the resentment between a big brother and his kid sister.
7252
I was born in France, personally I have no opinion of the US. It's got a nice standard of living, certainly the best in the world.
1061499
I agree for the most part.  Most cultures will still keep their languages and accent.  English is becoming the main language for business the way French used to be.
872549
Sounds like a bad idea to me too.  And I am a liberal.  Of course I didn't know we liberals wanted us to be more like France until I saw your email.  It kinda surprised me to hear that.  Gee you'd think I'd have known I wanted something like that.  All this time I thought I wanted us to be like we used to be, not like France is.  I thought I wanted stuff like the return of the constitutional writ of habeus corpus, and end to the build up of millions of dollars of new debt each month (mostly to China) which if you think about it is going to impose a heavy burden on the next generation, an end to divisiveness as preached by the current administration, a reasonable minimum wage, real action on illegal entry into our country, an end to our administration lying to us and the world in order to wage war, an end to spying on US citizens, and real support in the war on terrorism by supporting efforts in Afghanistan.\n\nHey, wait a minute!!  That isn't like France at all!!!  I get it now, you are just another person practicing divisiveness by blindly following a party line and making unfounded, untrue unresearched judgments against those you and your party disagree with.
1112085
No reaction. I wouldn't CARE. USA is a big butthead these days. I mean, I LIVE in USA but they're getting a little too arrogant according to other countries.