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What's the difference between calling someone a 'Frenchie' and someone a 'Merican' apart from the land they are from?
What's the difference between calling someone a 'Frenchie' and someone a 'Merican' apart from the land they are from?'Merican is short for American and is just an abbreviated way of saying it, Frenchie is derogatory as it is not short for Frenchman. Basically what Smooth said.
It's like calling a Swedish person a Swede. A Danish person a Dane etc etc i guess.
Frenchie is derogatory as it is not short for Frenchman.
:|Comparable to someone calling an American a "Yank" or Yankee" as it is often taken like an insult, as while it refers to the nationality it does not do so in a kind fashion.
Well I dont think they want to be called a French'em either, so give us a good easy to remember word to replace frenchy.
French/Frenchman/Québécois/Quebecer/Canadian/French-Canadian
Take your pick. French is pretty short and easy :wink:
I type swedish on NA_1 sometimes just to spite the 'merikkans.
The OP knows most NA people are probably not used as much to language diversity as the EU people might be.
Why is anyone being negative towards french peoples when there are hordes of dirty smelly yanks to yell at? FUCK YANKS.
Frenchie is derogatory as it is not short for Frenchman.
Comparable to someone calling an American a "Yank" or Yankee" as it is often taken like an insult, as while it refers to the nationality it does not do so in a kind fashion.
So yes, "Frenchie" refers to a Frenchman, but not in a sociable manner in most social circles any more then you would call someone from Japan a "Jap."
Really? What reputation is that, exactly? Compared to what nationality?
Pretty sure that was a Berenger alt no? A Swedish guy talking shit about the French in WW2? HAHAHAHA. If you had any knowledge of history whatsoever (which none of the retarded cunts that say crap like that about the french have, because they are bonafide retards) you would know how hilarious that is. I'm sorry if you are stupid enough to believe that kind of generalized stereotype is accurate.
Pretty sure that was a Berenger alt no? A Swedish guy talking shit about the French in WW2? HAHAHAHA. If you had any knowledge of history whatsoever (which none of the retarded cunts that say crap like that about the french have, because they are bonafide retards) you would know how hilarious that is. I'm sorry if you are stupid enough to believe that kind of generalized stereotype is accurate.
Comparable to someone calling an American a "Yank" or Yankee" as it is often taken like an insult
Free French>Petain chocolate chip cookie slave-boys, but everyone knows that. The guy was a WW1 hero, but he was old and senile. Omg, a country overrun by the chocolate chip cookies collaborating with them? So unique in WW2. At least the french fought (and got pwned, as is well known, losing more troops to bungling leadership than the US lost in the entire war. But then again the Americans waited until everyone was nice and drained before they intervened, like every major war they ever fought), unlike some other pushover fawning bitch countries I could name (i.e most of Europe, those that weren't allies in the first place). Smooth you seem to be well-informed, how many french actually fought for the chocolate chip cookies, compared to those that fought and killed and died against them?
Why are you so mad.
Why are you such a blazing retard?
Because it upsets you and makes your day hopefully a little little bit more shittier than it already is.
Nationalism is funny. People get all crazy about the country where their mom happened to get fucked and spit them out.
Nationalism is funny. People get all crazy about the country where their mom happened to get fucked and spit them out.Are you drunk?
I've lived in many more countries than that, and something that was common to all of them was a sense of pride in their nationality. If not that ethnicity, or religion, or something. People who think not having any sense of nationality is something enlightened and admirable are deluded and naive. Tribalism is inherently human, the peoples that DO have pride in some form of it, no matter how fake or artificial it is, shape the world and it's future. Those that don't fade into obscurity or get absorbed. Different strains of it will never dissapear, just compete with each other as they have done since the dawn of civilization.
It should and will disappear. EU is a good working example for once ( EU got a Nobels Peace prize this year ). Countries/tribes that were fighting over Europe for thousands of years, finally come to see each other as partners, and war between Germany, UK and France is highly unlikely these days.
Germany used to be divided in multiple tiny countries until Bismark, just as most major countries in Europe used to be before. Just look at this mess:
14th century:
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The term nationality itself is only about 300 years old btw...
All-in-all nothing good comes from nationalism imo, ever. To be strongly proud of once geographic origin, is for someone who has nothing else to be proud of as a person.
and war between Germany, UK and France is highly unlikely these days. War is unlikely between major nations because of the destructive power of modern weapons. War between major nations and weak nations does happen and pretty commonly. Mainland europe may be at peace but im sure if you ask a german what he is he wont refer to himself as european but german.And a German from Saxony used to refer to himself as Saxon and not as German, those things can change. Nationalism is weakening, it is a slow process but a German refering to himself as a European is hardly unthinkable.
Try asking around the UK what the feelings towards the EU are :P would you find many of us willing to be "led" or ruled by someone who isnt from the UK? I think you will find your answer is no from 99.9%
War is unlikely between major nations because of the destructive power of modern weapons.Not really, war between these nations is unlikely because they are democracies with free markets. These countries are globally connected with eachother to the extent that having a war with any of them would give us a financial crisis that will make us forget about the current one in a second. The benefits will never even get close to outweighing the costs so war is basically impossible.
Well Berenger and Oberyn at it again. Cant tell who is more foolish, the one who is trolling the raging frenchman(again), or the frenchman who totally fell for the trolls and keeps writing long logical posts, althou he realised it long ago it was pointless. Seriuslly Oberyn, Berenger is acctually quite smart, but he has to keep up with his stereotypical american act, otherwise people wont find him interesting anymore. :rolleyes:
Im with Teeth on this one, grow balls and live happy. Frenchy is not a bad word. I use it aswell, since its just catchy and I just mean "french dude" by it, nothing offensive. I make fun of everybodies country and they make fun of mine, but we act all cool about it, since its just all in good fun(or in very rare occasions ignorance).
The term nationality itself is only about 300 years old btw...
All-in-all nothing good comes from nationalism imo, ever. To be strongly proud of once geographic origin, is for someone who has nothing else to be proud of as a person.
More like Oberyn - Smoothrich.
I'm just laughing at Oberyn acting like a retard. Actually pretty funny.
More like Oberyn - Smoothrich.
I'm just laughing at Oberyn acting like a retard. Actually pretty funny.
The term nationality itself is only about 300 years old btw...
That is absolutely false.
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Saying nationalism is 300 years old is outright ignorant.
I could go on and on for days on the subject, but yeah. Your views are very very simplistic.
It should and will disappear. EU is a good working example for once ( EU got a Nobels Peace prize this year ). Countries/tribes that were fighting over Europe for thousands of years, finally come to see each other as partners, and war between Germany, UK and France is highly unlikely these days.
Germany used to be divided in multiple tiny countries until Bismark, just as most major countries in Europe used to be before. Just look at this mess:
The term nationality itself is only about 300 years old btw...
All-in-all nothing good comes from nationalism imo, ever. To be strongly proud of once geographic origin, is for someone who has nothing else to be proud of as a person.
If you choose to define some random unrelated historical facts as "nationalism", there is no way me, or anyone else can stop you.
All-in-all nothing good comes from nationalism imo, ever. To be strongly proud of once geographic origin, is for someone who has nothing else to be proud of as a person.