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Originally Posted by BarjackU977
Yet, from a human perspective, your style raise the questions of your intent. So, Jimbuna, what's your point with this post, actually?
I assume you have a message? Some hate? Humiliation? Maybe that every Frenchman born is a looser of some sort? Certainly, you didn't intent to be warm and welcoming with French, here.
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There's no hate involved at all. Sometimes somebody starts a joke about somebody else, and it just catches on. In the 1970s here in America for some reason there were a rash of jokes about "dumb Polacks". Most of us know that Poles are no more stupid, nor in general smarter, than any of the rest of us, but we loved them anyway.
For the last 15 years or so it's been "dumb blondes". Every one of us has known highly intelligent women, and men, who had yellow hair. But we love the jokes anyway.
You are right: the French jokes started with their decision not to become involved in the US invasion of Iraq. And it went off from there.
On the other hand, many of us remember that the United States would have had a much harder time with our little rebellion against the British without the help of men with names like Lafayette, Rochambeau and De Grasse.
But the jokes are fun, and soon it may be someone elses turn. Of course all Frenchmen are cowards, just as all Scots are tightwads, all Irish are drunks, all Germans are militarists, all Japanese wear glasses and are technophiles, all Americans are domineering, all Canadians wear funny hats, all Australians hunt alligators with their bare hands, all...