2007-02-20 08:09:36 · 11 answers · asked by Cuddles 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
They don't. Morons hate the French. Any self respecting Briton would respect them as one of our closest allies.
(stands back to watch the rush of right wing nuts and bigots....)
2007-02-20 08:13:32 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
It's traditional.
England has been at war with France 20 times (+,-) since the Norman invasion. Our most devoted enemy.
(Scotland holds the second place in this league table)
The French revolution was the horror, and then Napoleon.
There is a suggestion that Brtain only survived the German Luftwaffe onslaught because in the late thirties the RAF got increases in funding to counter a larger *French* airforce.
It is mutual: I have a 1950's cartoon of Charles De Gaulle bayonetting a dummy John Bull. Caption "I have no real no real dispute with Britain, but it would be a shame to let these old traditions die out."
But in all seriousness it should not be overstated.
(My parents, English, live in France).
And most of the French hate Parisians, so agreement on at least that is possible.
It's complicated.
2007-02-20 16:40:13 · answer #2 · answered by Pedestal 42 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They don't all hate them. My uncle always goes on holiday to France but then he is too vacant to notice how rude they are. I don't hate them either, but I have been in France and had people be rude to us until they realised we were Scottish and not English, so I can sympathise with English people who have encountered such behaviour from the French.
2007-02-20 18:04:02 · answer #3 · answered by Rotifer 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We don't, I think it's more a historical rivalry leading from our close proximity. A bit like Sunderland and Newcastle. I suggested to my manic Mackem colleague that I buy him a black and white strip and he nearly threw a dining chair at me today. Scale up to a national level and the chair becomes cannonballs.
2007-02-24 14:53:33 · answer #4 · answered by elflaeda 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We don't all hate French people - I'm a francophile myself, and many English folks regularly visit France and love it and its inhabitants - but there does seem to be a tradition of French hating among a few English people, I'm afraid. I suspect it dates from the Napoleonic Wars!
2007-02-20 16:16:45 · answer #5 · answered by mad 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Personally,ive always admired how poor frenchmen and women through history have stood up for themselves,they are heroes in my eyes...Vive La Revolution
2007-02-21 07:12:37 · answer #6 · answered by stef8705 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they believe their better than us. and are extremerl arrogant. But it's not just the Brittish, the Yanks, Italians, most of europe the way I hear it. I might be wrong, but it might also have some thing to do with the phrase "cheese eating surrender monkeys". Sorry
2007-02-20 16:16:00 · answer #7 · answered by king_sigh 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
They don't... well as far as im concerned they (we) don't. In fact I love french people, they are so much friendlier than miserable brittish people. In fact I would quite enjoy living in france!
2007-02-24 11:03:49 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i dont. anyway im a Scot, not a briton
2007-02-22 13:53:26 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't hate them, I just dislike their accent.
2007-02-20 16:17:12 · answer #10 · answered by suckaslug 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋