Briton: We Hate the French
Monday, October 31st, 2005A new poll has come out which tells us pretty much what we suspected all along:
Eighty-six percent of people in Britain aged 18 to 30 think the French deserve “a popular negative stereotype,” suggests an opinion poll conducted for an Anglo-French art show in London.
That compares to 27 percent of like-aged people in France who felt the British held a negative stereotype of their nation, according to the survey.
The informal poll of 500 people in London, and as many in Paris, was commissioned by the organisers of an Entente Cordiale art show that opened in west London over the weekend. No margin of error was disclosed.
“British people should face up to the fact that they have an enormous problem when it comes to the French,” said exhibition organiser Richard Kaye, a Brition resident in France.
“The British will make jokes about the French which would, if made to the detriment of other national or ethnic groups, be considered extremely racist and dangerous.”
It seems that nobody likes the French anymore. Problem is, they don’t seem to comprehend that fact, so they do nothing to change the world’s perception of them. I guess when your busy taking oil money from Saddam you forget who your true friends have been.
Print This Post
November 3rd, 2005 at 12:33 pm
Perhaps many of them are bitter because the French were in the right about an invasion of Iraq being totally illegal and unnecessary and the British themselves (or at least their government) sided with the wrong side. This I suspect is a driving force behind the bitterness and enmity many Americans so immaturely feel toward the French, that they dared to oppose the idea of invading Iraq and were CORRECT.
November 4th, 2005 at 10:54 am
No, most Americans hold the French in such low regard because members of the French government were taking kick-backs from Saddam while illegaly purchasing Iraqi oil. The only reason France was against the war was because they were making a lot of money from Saddam. Right and wrong had nothing to do with it.