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[-] AceOnTrack@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 6 days ago

Not true, we the French don't care you hate us.

If anything, your hate makes us stronger.

[-] Leviathan@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

I showed a French dude a meme about British people relaxing when they get home because they don't have to do the accent anymore. He said it's the same with French people, except about pretending they like France.

[-] AceOnTrack@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 days ago

We love our country with the same passion we hate our country.

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[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago

I'm also commenting to let people know I don't care.

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[-] beegnyoshi@lemmy.zip 27 points 6 days ago

In overwatch EU servers (maybe in other similar games too), in my experience, in terms of pure toxicity hurled at you, having a french accent in comms manages to be even worse than having a female voice. Couldn't help but smile this one time someone told me they wouldn't be using the team comms because they were french. Amazing.

[-] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I love it. Never understood the hate for the French. I sometimes mock their accent out of admiration (same with Dutch). It sounds so nice to me. Once came across a woman who spoke in a French accent in Overwatch, rolled her R's forever and it sounded so attractive.

[-] bimbobear@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

Despite some very famous recent losses, France historically tended to go to war with and win against just about everyone on the continent, as such everyone got a bit salty about it. These days its just more of a meme.

[-] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Yeah, you know, I wasn't really around then. And I don't believe in making fun of someone because their ancestors were dicks.

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[-] Jumi@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

The French are the saltiest fuckers on the European OW servers. If they want to really insult you they switch to French, fucking cowards.

Which is honestly absolutely hilarious

[-] synapse1278@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

It's because insults in French are much better. Insulting in French is more cathartic.

I thought everybody knew that since 2003

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[-] FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago

The painful 'Murican obsession with identifying as a member of a culture they have a tenuous link to, in an attempt to be interesting, is genuinely cringeworthy

Your great grandfather was Scottish, French, Irish, Italian etc.

Not you

[-] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 days ago

It's obviously cringe, but I don't think it's some trivial thing, it's a trauma of Colonialism. Americans don't truly have a claim to the land they pillaged to live on. Whiteness absorbed European ethics like the borg, stripped them of a language and culture, and all they have left is getting run over by a Ford F250 in a Walmart parking lot.

So a lot of white Americans have this near libidinal need to tie themselves to a culture they consider to be more real or substantive. I don't think that's a trivial desire, but insisting that you're Italian, despite not knowing anything about the place, or claiming your great great great grandma was a Cherokee princess, or some shit.... That ain't it

[-] zikzak025@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

FWIW, I don't think it's a practice exclusive to whiteness, since marginalized groups will establish a nucleus of cultural identity as well. Whiteness will supplant that cultural identity in all but name, eliminating the need for traditional ethnic enclaves, but there are still plenty of legitimate (mostly non-white) subcultures in North America with shared practices and traditions that are not wholly American either.

[-] tino@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago

Hating other nations is the starting point of all fascist ideas. (also, I'm french)

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[-] BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Same strips but horizontal.

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