Sacre Bleu!

When you think of "French Bashing" the image that comes to mind is that of a right wing conservative American angry with the French over the Iraq war. "Cheese eating surrender monkeys", "Freedom Fries" and all that. The popular perception these days is that only Red Americans dislike the French, such upstanding global citizens are they.

However a study conducted by two Frenchmen reveals that other Europeans hate the French just the same. When asked what they thought of the French (not why they hated the French, mind), the researchers found that

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".

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They are crazy drivers, strangers to customer service, obsessed by sex and food and devoid of a sense of humour.

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Hat tip Polyscifi.