Europeans Agree: France Sucks...

The UK Telegraph article's headline is: Europe Unites In Hatred of French. I love this. Apparently after more than 1,500 years of warfare and in-fighting, the peoples of Europe have found one thing they can agree on: the French are a bunch of jerks.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, Britons described them as "chauvinists, stubborn, nannied and humourless". However, the French may be more shocked by the views of other nations.

For the Germans, the French are "pretentious, offhand and frivolous". The Dutch describe them as "agitated, talkative and shallow." The Spanish see them as "cold, distant, vain and impolite" and the Portuguese as "preaching". In Italy they comes across as "snobs, arrogant, flesh-loving, righteous and self-obsessed" and the Greeks find them "not very with it, egocentric bons vivants".

Interestingly, the Swedes consider them "disobedient, immoral, disorganised, neo-colonialist and dirty".

But the knockout punch to French pride came in the way the poll was conducted. People were not asked what they hated in the French, just what they thought of them.

"Interviewees were simply asked an open question - what five adjectives sum up the French," said Olivier Clodong, one of the study's two authors and a professor of social and political communication at the Ecole Superieur de Commerce, in Paris. "The answers were overwhelmingly negative."

Gee, doesn't France care about what other nations think of them? Aren't they concerned about their place in global society? Why are they so unapologetically ethnocentric?

Why the hell are Americans so damn concerned about what the world thinks about them when these pricks could give a rat's ass? They've perfected arrogance to an art form.

Hat Tip: Memeorandum

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