Why do you think about french people?

Question

why do you think we don't take showers every day?

explain me how did this idea entered in your mind(who said it to you, did you have read something etc?)

and after say me if you think it's true ore not and why?

Answer 1

It's an untrue stereotype and a possible explanation is this;

The German war time occupation of France meant severe rationing was in place and soap was a rare luxury.  

Quote from Miquelorg.com " The ration for Frenchman today, four months after the war is over, is two cakes of poor ersatz soap per month - 20 grams every two months. Most real soap can only he obtained on the black market, where it costs around 125 francs for 310 grams."

Answer 2

not familiar with this issue.

Answer 3

Why do I think about french people? Because.. well I guess i'm obsessed. i think about them all the time and I can't help it. I can not stop thinking about french people, one day someone said the word croissoint and something in me just snapped and suddenly all I could think about was Paris and the Eiffel tower and all kinds of french stuff, even freedom fries became french fries in my mind and i was so happy that i couldn't stop thinking about france and wanting to make love to it all night long and all the french people of the world even if they didn't take showers, i wanted to just join them in a s**y french love pile and I don't even know what that is but i'm serious.

Answer 4

I've lived in both continents. Europe is much cooler day in day out and the cosmetic industry is limited in what they can sell. On the one hand, Americans scorch their armpits with alumnimum bisulfate in their deodorants and poison their water supply with perfume. They have to. It is much warmer climate. I suppose all Europeans travel with cosmetics from home and they don't work so well in America. Also, Americans are totally bloated down with fatty-foods and drive an automobile any distance greater than 50 meters with the air conditioning on.

Having said that. The French don't have the force of numbers in America like the Spanish people do. Americans cannot refer to ethnic differences. So, Americans joke about minorities in a different kind of way. If you tell a joke, someone or something has to be put down.

The French have a much more sincere form of expression with built-in formality in their conversation. Americans are parroting TV.

And, believe you me, the people that make French jokes aren't anything. You're not missing a thing.

Answer 5

wow...that's hard to read

are you French?

Answer 6

I am British. I have lived in France, I love France, and the French, However the lower class in england like to denigrate the french, because the do not understand them, their language and their culture. The majority of them pour across the channel to fill up with cheap f**s and alchohol and then get back on the ferry. These people should not be confused with the better educated, who appreciate your culture and so get off the ferry and pour down to south for the sun, food, and cheap houses.

I am sure that there are mainy people in France who hate the English (i am ashamed of my fellow countrymen whilst I travel through Calais!

France is reknowned for its fine wines, cheeses, history, fashion. It is a beautiful country. England is reknowned for many things including history, culture, countryside and unfortunately some thick and uncouth people!

Yes we too have people who not shower at all let alone weekly. In fact 90% of houses in towns upto 1950 did not have a bathroom in their houses, a tin bath in front of the fire once a week was all they had, the smallest went in first, finally dad went in. Same water! eeugh!

Answer 7

well once when I was in High School we had a few French Exchange Students, I don't know maybe they got the from the ghetto, but they relly had bad body odor.

Answer 8

Many of the negative comments about the French are obviously nothing more than politically motivated insults.

But even Americans who have no political animosity to the French often comment about things like showers and smells.

I think this is because Americans have been brainwashed by advertising to be believe that anything that even remotely resembles the natural odor of a human being is offensive.

Americans use more soap and deodorants than any other people on Earth.Their obsession with cleanliness is suspected by medical authorities to be the cause of increased allergic diseases in the United States.

So its perhaps understandable that the whiff of a little ordinary sweat will cause them to decide that everyone in France is dirty.

Answer 9

why else would they wear garlic? vampires? i think not

Answer 10

The subway in Paris has a weird smell. Maybe that is why people think French people don't shower. I have actually never heard that said about French people.  It seemed like a lot of people smoke in France. That is a stinky habit.

I loved France when I was there. All the French people I encountered were very nice.

I really enojyed all of the culture and the pastry and bread shops. I would love to go back.

Answer 11

French people are not what they are talked about. They earned their bad reputation from arrogant tourists who in general do not like to immerse themselves in the local culture, aka american tourists. Obviously, if you don't try to understand your waiter (who most likely doesn't speak english-duh), you will lose patience and the waiter as much as he tries to be patient with you, will flip you the finger.

It's trully just a gruelling hearsay reputation that us tourists started, because most cannot afford the very nice expensive hotels in France, and end up in 1-2 star hotels, where it's a little less classy, where it's common to see less high class tourists.

Trust me, I know for a fact French people are clean, they shave their armpits and legs and down there.

The subway (metro) stinks just like in any metro in the major cities. NewYork city's metro is the worst I ever been in, London's Underground is nasty as well. Do you honestly expect an underground train station to smell like a 5 star hotel bathroom ? what, you think they should have gigantic fans spraying Yves St Laurent's colognes and perfumes down there ??

On the other hand, americans here are trully smelly. In between people who had bacon and sausage for breakfast and sweat it in the train car to simply people who don't know about deodorants, and those who can't afford to take showers daily, trust me I know for a fact who is the smelliest. Body hair is pretty visible in here on women...forget LA and Miami and Vegas where the glamour and the riches and beauties are (thanks to Dr 90210 and his miracle plastic), the rest of the people are pretty normal and smelly.

So yeah, French people are as clean as can be. I vouch for it.

Answer 12

don know

do they still have their hands up from WWII

Answer 13

Snapdrag... I'd love to see more British people like you. I live in London (greater London) and don't see many like you. Good man! well said!

Answer 14

I attended a french school in my country and half of my french teachers did not take showers every day..believe me.....but the other half did...........I lived in Paris for three years and it´s true: the subways stink during the summer, but all of our french friends were nice and clean people........ I think it´s a matter of choice......and just a bad reputation......