Hi,
Here's my experience with French people.
I'm Belgian so I think I know what i'm talking about
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For you should know that French and Belgian are used to laugh at each other for centuries...
French people have jokes about how stupid the Belgian are, and Belgian have exactly the same jokes about the French...
I must admit that what I taught of France a few years ago was no so
brilliant... I think it was due partly from those bloody jokes and
partly from the stupid pleasure you can get in thinking you are smarter
then the guy living in the other village.
My familly has moved in France two years ago and so I was forced to meet some of them
And then I learned to look behind the mask and found... an empty space
( Just joking ! can't help it, must be some national heritage of some
kind
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).
Most seriously, a lot of the people I know there now are nice, honest,
have a prety good sence of humour and don't smell cheese at all (but...
are still noisy). Like in... any other country in the wold (the
discovery of the century... I know
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)
How could you possibly juge a whole population on a main feeling...
(Yet I have one last doubt about English people... do you really eat
jelly ? I mean... really ?)
I really had to change my mind and I'm glad of it.
Hope you'll have a chance to change yours if you need to.