Tell me what I need to know about France
Study Algerian history
it's shit
it's great
>be french
>>60119910
Nice language, great food and fucktons of black people.
Best country in the world
why do they wear the mask?
>>60119910
It's a country.
t. Frenchman
>>60120130
no one cared who they were until they put on the mask
>>60119910
i'm in american who just moved to france. been here a month. all of the stereotypes are true:
>don't work
>on strike all the time (it is literally strike season right now)
>whole country shuts down in august because everyone is on vacation
>nothing is open on sundays wtf
>everyone wears striped shirts
>everyone carries around baguettes
>everyone drinks wine
>make super weird facial expressions, mannerisms, and sound effects
but the food is great, quality of life is great (because nobody works and everyone is relaxed), and a lot of history/culture here.
biggest disappointment so far: french girls are just not that hot.
>>60120641
>biggest disappointment so far: french girls are just not that hot.
Surprised
>>60120641
Where are you?
>>60120641
>Paris
>France
Amerilard amerilarding
>>60120641
If you've only been there a month, how do you know everyone goes on vacation in august?
But yes, as someone who used to live in France, the french are pretty lazy.
Suddenly everyone lived in France or lives in France
>>60120641
>on strike all the time (it is literally strike season right now)
Social consciousness l'ami, the government is trying to pass a law which grants big businesses full power over exploitation of the working class.
Be aware that France's youth is full of commies.
I thought the food would be bad but it's actully fantastic
>>60120641
>french girls are just not that hot
this is objectively wrong.
>>60120791
toulouse
>>60121093
I GUESS ANYTHING WOULD BE BETTER THAN FAS-INFLICTED OGRE WOMEN YOU HAVE
>>60121015
What is French food?
>>60121408
delicious
>>60121471
Do they use a lot of garlic? I love that shit
>>60121093
He is right tho
>>60121093
i was hoping for bigger boobs
... probably should've moved to UK or germany instead
>>60122572
French women are known to have big boobs, if that's what you're looking for you should've tried germany/scadinavia/russia
>>60122627
Aren't known*
>>60119910
A once great country that has fallen from grace in the most sad and depressing way possible. And most of the population still live in denial, in the belief that France still is on the same level of international relevance as the UK or Germany.
>>60126150
We're as relevant as UK, tho
>>60121301
Wait, are you the anon I talked with on /trv/ who wanted some DUDE ?
they were our first ally <3
>>60121015
>I thought the food would be bad
Why ? The whole world is saying it's great
>>60126663
So... not that relevant. hehehe, all that fighting we did and look at us now, both pretty shit. kek.
>>60126865
We're the most powerful countries of Europe and 5th and 6th most powerful countries in the world IIRC
Definitely a thing !
>>60119910
>cultıre
nice (but overrated) language
good bread
paris
arrogant people
>history
first christian-muslim ally were france-ottoman
then betrayad us
supported yankees because of their british butthurt
pretends to have "freedom" while theyre fascist-levet anti-democratic about religion (check laicism, we have the same cancer)
colonized niggers, and now niggers colonizing them
pkk can do terrorism propoganda in paris, and they would cry for being attacked by another terrorists
>>60126934
>Laicism
>Cancer
Especially in Muslim countries where it seems having a religious nutjob at the head of a country happens too often
>>60126663
When was the last time the premiere of a French TV-show made international news?
France's economy is smaller. France has fewer large multinational companies. France has less influence over developing nations (even in the "Francophone" part of Africa, where countries are moving away from the French language in favour of English and Arabic), France has fewer important financial institutions, and France absolutely does not have the cultural reach and influence that the UK has.
>>60127048
The U.K mostly is surfing on the american culture wave, without it they would be nothing today, culturally speaking
>>60127135
The UK is certainly benefiting from the fact that the Americans made English the global lingua franca. But they still produce their own media, and it is very different from what the Americans make. Except when they make remakes of British ideas... which does happen.
>>60127048
>Judging country's relevance by their TV shows
k den bye
>>60127282
>pretending like culture doesn't matter for a country's relevance
>also ignoring all the other points I made
Fuck off! :DDDDD
>>60127048
They are not moving away from French, that is just factually untrue .French is growing year after year in every country of the Francophonie, both in terms of sheer numbers and of percentage of speakers in the general population.
As for the rest of your post, I don't even know which premiere you're taking about if you're referencing some show I should be aware of. And France's and UK's economies are so tied it barely makes a difference. As for the impact on the global stage, culturally, financially and so on, it's true that France lags behind. The UK most likely has the advantage as a "more relevant" country, but not by the margin people seem to believe.
>>60127383
Well yeah I stopped at the first sentence it was dumb enough already
I read the rest now tho, but know next to nothing about these things so I don't have any comment
>>60119992
>>60119959
these
>>60127417
http://www.theguardian.com/education/2009/jan/16/rwanda-english-genocide
>>60127629
Rwanda was Belgian not French and British newspapers might not be your best bet to inform yourself on anything French related
>>60127256
>Except when they make remakes of British ideas... which does happen.
Please don't remind me.
>>60127256
>they still produce their own media
We do too, but we do everything in French and so it doesn't leave the country
>>60127629
>Africans being THIS mad
Can't handle banters
>>60127869
The Danes manage to make TV-shows that people in the UK and US watch... in Danish. Japanese TV-shows and Korean movies are mainstream entertainment throughout the world. If your stuff isn't leaving the country, it's because it's shit, not because of the language.
>>60128017
Well there's a great show that has been remade by the Americans in a shittier version (Les Revenants)
>Korean movies are mainstream entairtainement troughout the world
Just "no"
>>60127629
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francophonie#.C3.89volution_du_nombre_de_francophones_en_2015
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-language-economy-idUSKBN0IP1V220141105
And the Ghana for example is promoting French in schools even though its official language is English. French in general is in very good shape in Africa, and it had long been a minority language in Rwanda anyway.
>>60128017
French films are decent, desu. Danish Tv remains great.
And nobody knows about Japanese and Korean shows outside of SEA
I don't want to speak bad.
>>60128017
>Japanese TV-shows and Korean movies are mainstream entertainment throughout the world
If by Japanese tv show you mean anime then yes
Otherwise no, and neither are the Koreans
>>60128125
>>60128233
y'all have shit tastes in movies
>>60128315
Just because you watch some doesn't mean it's mainstream
4chan posters aren't a good example of mainstream
>>60128228
Why do Finns hate us ?
>>60126865
>>60126930
you're both on the fucking security council
>>60128367
Korean movies are incredibly mainstream, though. I think the vast majority of people above the age of 15 have at the very least seen Oldboy. (And probably a bunch of other revenge movies, without really diving any deeper into the interesting world of Korean cinema.)
>>60127048
>Fewer large mutinational compagnies.
Wrong.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_European_companies_by_revenue
>Less influence over developing nations
Wrong.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/pascalemmanuelgobry/2014/03/21/want-to-know-the-language-of-the-future-the-data-suggests-it-could-be-french/#309143ed3933
>Fewer important financial institutions
Wrong again.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_banks
>Cultural reach
I don't even know where to start, but basically anything except music.
>>60128485
Just how delusional are you
Seriously, I'm a rather normie guy and have several friends, know quite a lot of people, and the vast majority of them have never heard of oldoy nor watched a Korean movies
Sure they aren't all into good movies anyway, but "incredibly mainstream" is really far too much
You underestimate the huge amount of plebs out there
>>60128625
>oldoy
Oldboy* which I have seen btw
>>60128017
I haven't seen any Danish shows here
I want to live in Caen with a brown haired and green eyed french qt that likes literature
>>60128154
What's your favorite French film
>>60128745
Sure you have.
>>60127256
>it is very different from what the Americans make
That's a myth, they have the exact same character tropes, film grammar, and narrative structures, and they work in the same genres. Even their humor is similar
>>60128745
You've probably seen or heard of a remake without realizing it
>>60128745
He is confusing shows airing at 2am on cable television for something mainstream
>>60128831
Hell, this city is sad af
>>60128879
It always better through a foreigner's eye
>>60128951
When you're from Haiti, maybe, but when you're from America...
>>60128831
That's the dream buddy. We'll get there.
>>60128857
>Even their humor is similar
Is this the infamous American comedy I've heard about.
>>60127874
Teaching English as the secondary main language is much more useful for Rwanda then French.
>>60129104
Maybe, not my problem
>>60128879
Do you live there?
I thought it was so nice when I visited. In a more romantic way.
>>60128991
This is the city I live in for reference. Except I don't actually live in the city proper, I live in the suburban sprawl that is known as the "Greater Richmond Area."
>>60128855
Didn't know that was one
>>60128857
Most likely
>>60128867
Huh
>>60122627
French girls always have nice butts
>>60129149
No, I don't live in Caen
>>60129210
Where do you live?
I like to look at european cities and towns
>>60129272
Tours, Indre et Loire, Région Centre Val de Loire, lad
Sorry m8, time to sleep, see ya
>>60129335
thanks and sleep tight, don't let the bed bugs bite
>>60129020
People who deny similarities in American and British humor are just nationalists hoping to give credence to stereotypes
Language defines humor more than any other cultural trait; all of the anglosphere generally finds the same things funny
There's far more in common between American and British humor than, say, American and Russian or British and German
>>60129392
British humor tends to be funny.
>>60129335
Which city has the best looking French women
>>60128991
I can understand why he likes it, it has charm
As French we know more the area and the pros and cons of the place so even if I like it too I know I wouldn't want to live there, but for an American it has great things (history, lots of preserved architecture, and it's in Normandy which attracts a lot of New Worlders anyway)
>>60129487
London
>>60129487
Montpellier definitely has a lot of really hot women, but a lot of them are the "degenerate" kind, to speak like /pol/ (a.k.a tatoos, piercings, dyed hair etc)
I personally don't mind but people on this website usually do
>>60129442
I enjoy Monty Python and Black Adder
>>60129563
Cool
What about the best non-party girl type
>>60129590
I really like Mitchel and Webb's work
>>60129392
Hardly anyone over hear find American humour funny desu, all your """comedy"""" movies are completely different, stop denying it British and American humour are very different.
I like streets like this. They are delightful to me.
>>60129563
Where can I find a brown haired and green eyed french girl who likes to read books and will show me all kinds of neat french things while I show her American things and she thinks they're neat and then marries me and we live together in a harmonious marriage for the rest of our lives?
>>60129833
That looks like a decent average street you could find in a lot of French towns tb.h
>>60129833
Tours sucks so much holy shit
>>60129893
I know, I like to look at them on google maps sometimes. The French buildings are what sets it apart. From what I have observed France has more plaster while the UK uses more brick.
>>60130006
It is quaint
>>60129993
delet this
>>60130034
>UK uses more brick
This is true, if you want an honest opinion France is better than the UK for having more nice looking places, we do have some nice places but not as many as France.
>>60130188
French cities preserved their character better, and built the housing estates in banlieus on the outskirts of the cities. British country towns and smaller cities are still nice as they didn't rush to build hideous commie blocks in the 60s and 70s.
>>60130034
>It is quaint
Well at least you chose "realistic" places, these streets aren't ugly but they are closer to the kind of place most French live rather than pic related. Narrow village streets and old medieval streets in general are my favorite but it's not like most of the population lived there
Basically I like that you don't seem to have a too much romanticized view of our cities, if this is enough to please you
>>60129392
It's not so different now. A self deprecating show like "It's always sunny in Philadelphia" would never have been made in the 90s. Modern American comedies are definitely more influenced by British humour than they were in the past, so the differences aren't that great now.
>>60130363
>if this is enough to please you
Since this is enough to please you, meaning the kind of streets you post
Bit drunk
>>60119910
France is a powerless and poor country
>>60130437
You won't get as many (You) as earlier, too many normie French posters asleep
>>60130437
Poor bait.
>>60130437
(You)
>>60130437
Si jamais j'oublie les nuits que j'ai passées,
Les guitares et les cris,
Rappelle-moi qui je suis,
Pourquoi je suis en vie.
>>60130599
that's a gypsy over there
>>60130628
You can't photoshop away my dreams
cheese eating surrender monkeys
>>60130698
Looks like a regular woman actually when zoomed
hon hon
weewee
>>60130363
I like the narrow streets as well since we don't have much of those in the US. Everything is very wide here.
I think what I like so much is how on one hand they look very romantic and almost elicit a similar emotion to what I feel looking at the colonial era towns here, but at the same time they are modern and everyday French people use them in their normal lives.
It is very Old World.
I also love they way their is outdoor dining on what is basically the sidewalk. That is not done here often.
>>60131001
>I also love they way their is outdoor dining on what is basically the sidewalk. That is not done here often.
I can confirm it's common as fuck here, anywhere in the country, touristic area or not
>Bayeux
The famous tapestry is damn impressive
You seem to like Normandy, I'm more into the southern half of the country but I spent several childhood hollidays in a traditional Normande house like pic related it was great. Really quiet place
>>60119910
They are best ally
>>60131001
>in the US. Everything is very wide here.
You got that right mate...
>>60131234
I have a little model of one of those houses on my desk.
When I visited France a few years ago we spent most of our time in Normandy and saw the D-day beaches, Mont Saint-Michel, a few castles, some other WWII sites, and every thing up there before going to visit Paris.
I want to visit the south of France too though.
>The famous tapestry is damn impressive
I very much agree with this. I think I enjoyed that morning more than anything else.
Mont Saint-Michel was my other favorite.
How does Italy compare to France? Which one is nicer to live in?
>>6012848 korean movies are great but not mainstream. It is an acquired taste as well. You're being a bit tsundere, how often are you reading French bashing articles in Anglo media?
Some French movies you could check : la haine, The artist, Léon, OSS117...
>>60128485
>>6012848 korean movies are great but not mainstream. It is an acquired taste. You're being a bit tsundere, how often are you reading French bashing articles in Anglo media?
Some French movies you could check : la haine, The artist, Léon, OSS117...
>>60132091
It compares very well it's also a great country despite the meme, as to which one is nicer to live in I think it really depends what you like but could probably find something that fits you in both, the 2 country are really diverse from one region to another
>>60132311
Thanks. Are there any general differences between the two countries? Differences in lifestyle, mentality, or culture that differ?
I understand that things will vary between region, but I mean general things.
>>60132387
Italians are lazier and dumber but they are good people too.
>>60131234
>tfw I did the same 45 mins out from Carcassonne
Still have the keys. Once I'm done in NZ I'm gonna go there with my gf and fix the house up.
>>60132557
Would you say they are friendlier in general? More relaxed?
>>60132387
Well there must be yeah (I don't have any specific example that comes to mind tho) but I know Southern France (the eastern half) has a lot of common points with Northern Italy
An Italian told me some days ago that Northern Italian were less "lazy" than Southern French, speaking about how many strikes and protests we but I think the strike thing and the mindset that comes with it can be said for all the country, in that aspect we're different than most our neighbours not just Italy
>>60132558
Which town ? I grew up about 1h from Carcassonne, in one of the neighbouring department
>>60132694
Thank you for the information. One final thing, which nation do you think has better weather? I hear that Italy can get rather uncomfortable in the summer.
>>60132612
Maybe although that would depend, a guy living in Provence near Italy is probably not that much different than an Italian contrary to someone who grew up in, say, Alsace
>>60132803
I'll go with France, because I think it's has more different climate since we right in between the north and the south, whereas Italy is entirely in southern Europe
However they have mountains running all along their country so there must still be quite a lot of places with not too hot weather
>>60132915
>it's has
Wew
That's what happens when I type fast
>>60132915
Thank you. I am studying French right now, and I hope to move there soon and integrate into French culture, and maybe start a family there.
>>60133088
Best of luck then
>>60133088
Just curious but why do you want to move to France
>>60132778
Honestly mate I can't tell you - have to find the name again.
Its been years since I last went there. I remember the place though, high up on one side of a valley (almost a canyon). Small river at the base, brick walls around and a lovely old stone bridge. Pâtisserie by it where I used to buy things for breakfast.
Small, old town that stretches around 2 corners of the winding river.
No theres good tacos woaey, forget it
>>60133279
You can get everything you need to make your own though
>>60133173
I am a Francophile, I like pretty much everything about France.
>>60133279
Widespread Tacos are a recent thing
The original chimpouts kangz and also interesting history
>>60133196
That sounds like a lot of towns in that area kek, a.k.a comfy af
If the terrain was hilly/rocky 45mn away you probably where somewhere in the Corbières mountains (south) or in the Montagne Noire (north) pic related, both beautiful places
>Pâtisserie
U fuken now it
We kicked their ass and are slowly taking over their country
>>60133566
Yeah that's it. Rocky with some lush bush scattered around.
Comfy as fuck and I can't wait to spend some time there again after so long.
NZ is a beautiful country with comfy spots of its own, but the old world feel and French (girls) food + drink, it just doesn't compare.
>>60133496
>The original chimpouts kangz
Even their slaves were the best at this
In all seriousness I do think the Haitian revolution is pretty interesting, they have accomplished very little since then but the story itself is interesting
>>60133669
I know what you mean, I've been to the USA and we can't compete with the kind of wilderness they have or you have, even if we have beautiful natural places of our own. But on the other hand you just need to love history and Europe becomes hella attractive, interesting things in every town, all these years of civilization leaves traces
Like this pic, it's regular mountains then you notice the medieval castle standing on a hill and it's another atmosphere entirely
>>60133721
>Even their slaves were the best at this
Maybe but they didn't have a global scale chimpout
The country went apeshit with the revolution
>>60133088
you sound like a chick. Are you?
>>60134249
How does it sound like I am female? And if I am, why do you care?
>>60134249
Fuck I thought you said a chink at first
>>60134303
Gosh I'am just asking, period rage talking I guess
>>60133372
Same here I thought about being in the legion
>>60134706
Does it make getting citizenship easier, or does that only apply if you are injured?
>>60134832
As far as I know once you are done you get the citizenship no matter what
But it's not that easy too join
>>60134303
Well. Are you
>>60134832
Yes. People here have called Ned weird or borderline traitor for thinking about it
>>60134876
Due to the attacks I presume. Or mafia and other criminals
>>60128388
>On the 4th of July 2005 French President Jacques Chirac claimed that "After Finland, [Britain is] the country with the worst food."
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>>60134949
Do you have to know French?
>>60135125
Yes and no. They teach you
>>60135087
>the 4th of July
The timing for his insult to the British could not have been better either
They eat frogs
>>60135087
Absolute madman
>>60135322
I didn't even realize that. Absolute madman indeed
>>60135087
>4th of July
