Is your everyday life influenced by the fact that you have been living in an euroregion?
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Samuel Wilson
Logan Thompson
very interesting. Clever way to engender amity
Aiden Perry
We Germans don't hate them, we just like to make fun of them once in a while but it's nothing out of hatred or anything.
My impression is that some French are still resentful towards us Boches (mostly old people and nationalists) but maybe its not as bad as I think. Most of them do apparently have a hate boner for our language though judging by this video:
Ayden Thompson
Yes, I thought so, too. Their language is a bit complicated for us, but when you travel there, you see that they are people just like us.
Ethan Morris
Yes, a lot of French people from my city wok in Luxembourg, you can make a lot of money. But the time lost in transportation exhaust people and people tend to come back working in France.
The Germans are kind of invisible to us, they have no cultural influence like a French user stated. Their cities on the other side of the border are sad and ugly, soulless I would say. They also don't like French people, they feel superior to the French, but come here for the holidays and weekend because our cities are clearly better as well as the food, quality of life, architecture etc..
You can check the region in this cool video, we're transitioning into the future while being still good looking cities with architecture and stuff, great quality of life
Asher Brooks
haha hate boner. I understand some francais & deutsch and i believe german is actually more mellifluous than french imo
Joseph Rodriguez
>make fun of them once in a while but it's nothing out of hatred or anything
The false sense of superiority I was talking about
Christopher Fisher
We were raised by school and TV to love Europe. We were also taught by American films to hate the Nazis, but unless a German is dressed like a SS we don't see them as Nazis (I'm speaking for the normies, for whom being a Nazi is a bad thing).
In college / grande école, we had our load of Erasmus students, english, many germans (I crossed half of France to study in Strasbourg). I remember Volker and Ulli especially.
Volker was gay... It was a selective college so there were no working class students, only the bourgeoisie. But even 100 years ago people from the same class across borders tended to not be fooled by propaganda, that we should hate our neighbors.
It was more complex for the working class of both countries, who didn't have the means to resist the propaganda : they were raised to think that a man had balls only if he could slay his share of "boches", or "schleus".
But in the middle of the war the working class made the same discovery as the bourgeoisie across borders. I think it was during the ceasefire of Christmas 1916, french and german soldiers talked with each other and many realized they had no reason to kill each other. They were both puppets of the big landlords and high bourgeoisie using propaganda to make the working class fight for their interests.
So no, today I can't find an example of a french person I know who hates the germans. There are many polical parties that are against the EUs, that say that we're slaves of Germans through the €uro, but none of them use old "hate speech" against Germans.
As they are economically successful, the thing I notice more in most people is a form of worshipping of the Germans : coronavirus? Panic!! What would a german do?? Crisis? What would a German do? Migrants? Look, if Germany can welcome them, why can't we?
So if there's one thing problematic with Germans, it's that we're made to love them too much. While we should ONLY love their white working class (aka nazis), not their bourgeoisie.
Austin Torres
>mellifluous
I guess I learned a new word today. Not sure about the comparison with french but I do think german sounds the most fluent and melodic out of all germanic languages.
Christopher Davis
I lived there but I'll try to be unbiased.
French people have no interest in Germany as a rule and we actually know very little of the country apart from the Nazi meme and that Berlin is a good party town.
It's either hatred/dislike or apathy towards the state and the people/culture.
The french people that know Germany usually quite like it but see the Germans as being too serious and the food as being bad.
We resent their economical success and a lot of people believe the EU is basically a way for Germany to dominate Europe.
We're actually a lot more similar than we would admit, I felt a lot more at home when I lived in northwest Germany than when I lived in Spain.