Never thought I'd say this, but Vive La Révolution
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Fuck I had a reply to this and closed the tab.
Is very much deserved.
France has one of the best military histories in the world which is the result of Europe repeatedly beating the shit out of each other like siblings do. The one they get remembered for is when the Nazis were roflstomping literally everyone on mainland Europe not on their side during WW2.
These 2 points are both the deserved reason for their 'smug sense of superiority'/nationalism as Tony mentions, as well as how a single event seems to be the focus for some despite everything else France has done.
Like help the founding USA exist.
France being France did 2 main things during the WoI. 1. They did their usual of "beat up the English" which meant hindering the founding USA's opponents. 2. They directly helped supply the founding USA because their opponents were the English.
France is rightly called America's oldest ally for good reason and yet the modern blogosphere is too retarded to remember most of these things at times like how during the last few decades when France did something the USA didn't like the petty response was to rename "French fries" to "Freedom fries".
For something that was invented in Belgium.
Fair enough. My own view of the French may be someone slanted because I'm Canadian, and French Canadian behaviour, as well as their interactions with Anglophone Canada, are shaped by petty grievance culture and characterised by an unearned sense of entitlement, incessant demands for special treatment and poisonous rhetoric, all of which has served to undermine the integrity of Canadian society on a fundamental and Constitutional level.
Also I don't like the food.
The behavior of French Canadians may not be as it is because they are French, but rather because they are a minority who believe their language and culture is threatened.
You are correct about the food though.
I think some of the crapping on the french comes from a cultural tradition, since America is culturally British in a lot of ways, little though we like to admit it, and one of those ways is a sort of cultural pasttime of hating the French.
Some of it is due to behavior that happened during the intervening +/- 200 years since the Revolutionary War, like America forgiving French debts in the middle of a major crisis, only for Americans to be spat on and swindled in the streets of Paris. Not to mention the open contempt a lot of French seem to have for Americans.
And to be honest, the French make it almost as easy as New Jersey to make fun of them sometimes...