French people

Debunking the common stereotype that the French are rude or standoffish or that they all wear berets and say oh la la when titillated!

Saturday morning in the country and I am not joking, they really look like this the little country farmers, in their worker blues (kind of like the equivalent to Carhartt.) with berets and baguettes. They are incredibly costaud (strong) and macho but they are also incredibly short in general. They may have spent all their lives milking cows, but they certainly didn't drink the milk themselves!

Benoît Maréchal

Male fashion & art photography with a homoerotic undertone

The world would be a boring place if we were all the same. Learning about cultural differences is fascinating and fun. But sometimes it can be confusing, especially when cultural differences come across as rude. I recently wrote an article on 13 things tourists do that get strange looks from the French, but here we’re not talking about more strange things. Today, we’re focusing on American habits and norms that would come across rudely to French people.

Here is a detailed look at 13 of France's most pervasive stereotypes/cliche's. How they came to be and why some French people hate them!

'Granddaddy on bicycle with litlle boy and baguette, Provence' by Elliott Erwitt,