This, and without a hint of irony.

France, you're a cunt and I love you.

Oh yeah, it's siblings rivalry. Outsiders OUT.

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.

and here I thought rioting in the streets for your rights and to keep government terrified of, and in service to, the people every 3 months was what made you stronger.

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

the impression I get is that they're pretending not to understand, but they do, they just don't give a flying fuck what other people think of them because everyone keeps buying their cheese, wine, and fashion so they're busy counting money, getting laid, and smoking like chimneys lol

Ils le comprennent parfaitement mais ils refusent de le parler.

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

Most Europeans don't even think about the Bri*ish

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.

The French are incredibly based and the trope of them surrendering immediately is ridiculous. The French resistance during WW2 was fierce. And throughout history and in current times the French don't take shit from their government. If the French government tried even a fraction of what our (German) government is pushing through at the moment Paris would be burned to the ground. Meanwhile we (Germans) just whine and do nothing.

It's an American thing that has slightly spilled out to the UK through popular media.

France has a strong track record post WW2 of consistently standing up to the USA's wars abroad; they were one of the first to kick US nuclear bases out of their own country during the Cold War, and were their biggest Western opponent at the UN regarding the second Iraq war. Hence the continued popularity of the "cheese-eating surrender monkeys" trope in American media.

Sometimes you Germans love them a little too much and France has to get restraining orders.

Stereotypes.

Americans are incredibly obsessed about which European countries their distant ancestors came from, even if they basically know nothing about these countries or how they are today.

Meanwhile, in Europe, friendly neighbour ribbing is alive and well. Everyone slings mud over the border, and it's fine, usually, they'll do the same to us, you see.