Here, take my upvote, and thank you!

-- A french.

Ah, no, we don't have issues with the french, we just love hating on each other because you know, we have history. Not with the current ones which is why we have no issues, but you know, it's entertaining.

French can joke about how the Basque did a very early space program (terrorism), how the Germans love their soap (Nazism) and so on. We don't have issues with each other, it's just fuckery.

That's why it's weird when Americans call french white flags... They are not allowed, also their references are about their experiences as tourists, which is like, it was probably their fault.

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.

I'm an englishman francophile. I love Jacques Brel, Georges Perec, French food...

like everything this is just a meme

Italians have a tendency to hate/compare themselve to the French.

For example: Italy scores very badly in some rankings. The first thing an Italian would do is to check if France is higher or lower than Italy. If it's lower, they'd say "at least we beat the french". If it's higher they'd say "damn we even scored worse than France... terrible".

But I don't think people actually hate france or the french. it's more like a meme I think!

We have no issue with the French. We do hate the Italians, they're a bunch of pushy fascists.

It's mostly american propaganda