16+ Things FRENCH PEOPLE are AMAZING at (love you Frenchies!!)

[@RGSuperfan]

I have heard that in US too it's quite a usual thing to go to the supermarket in your pyjamas. If you do that in France, people will think you have escaped from mental hospital or something 😂

[@Rachel-rs7jn]

🤣🤣🤣

[@rockyhrndz]

It happens but it's rare.

[@thaeros]

@@rockyhrndz not much here and like it was said before it's not well see... i will try to go to the supermarket in pyjama nect time... or... well no i think i will not my pyjama is no clothes at all lol i don't think they will be a good thing if i go to a supermarket completely naked lol or maybe i'm just thinking to much lol!( from the begining it's a joke don't take me too seriously i REALLY like to joke!1

[@janelc1843]

I agree, people don't care if you're well-dressed or not but pyjamas is a big NO ! I always wear sport clothes and I don't really care about what I wear but I would never even think of going out of my house in my night clothes

[@Jess-Rabbit]

I never see people in pj's anymore. It was kind of normal when I was a kid to wear those flannel pj pants with normal shirts and jackets but its not typical anymore. Mostly if you see people in lounge wear its like yoga gear or something tighter than pajamas and can almost pass for normal clothes

[@Thefrenchyaupair]

As a French living in usa, I realize how lucky we are to have such a beautiful country. Thank you for reminding me how much I miss and love my country. ❣️

[@MrFernanrc]

we would all love to move back to our countries, we dream about them, we try to eat like them in the US, but when we want to move, we remember how ruthless our family is, they are also poorer in wealth, still working the land, but the food is real and good for you. We live in a war, We hate the US, and when we get to Europe, we hate Europe and are happy we had our lives in the US, especially the pension or social security, something most American French talk greatly about. My country hates and will always hate the US, because of the religion. It keeps them ignorant, now they are trying to escape anywhere to find work, they end up working 1 year or 3 and leave. The US is a horrible place because of religion, everyone wants to the power and they will send out masses of people protesting. Both parties. It really sucks, wish I was Australian to get away for this, but I can't live anywhere else but California, Los Angeles. If I where to move, I would die.

[@croixfadas]

@@MrFernanrc Come back and lets do one more révolution.

[@learningfrench101]

I’ve noticed the ‘art of debate’ one for sure! That’s definitely something I wish I had 😅

[@jeremy942201]

I am a french coock and i think that the fact that the meal is a great part of our culture is what forme all the particularities in the popular classes. I mean, when you sharing a meal time with people you sharing also ideas, you talk, debate,... If you do it quite a lot like in France you tend to develop your point of view, and you will for knowledge to share. As a kid, that was also what bound me with my father because he was very sociable and participate to large meal where i could see my dad not being my dad but sharing time with friend around good food and wine. There were sing, laugh cry and shout. They were talking about art, politics, but also of their believes, their fear, their joy. And to seee that my parents aren't that full raisonnable authoriry but as emotionnal people help me to not to care for them only as my parents but also to care about them as people part of my community when i grew up. Finally you learn to empatizing a lot that is, I think, a quite good quality to creat art.

[@oonabellam670]

I lived in the South France (including Marseille for a while) for 2 years. I mixed with a variety of people & I agree with everything you say Rosie. Back in NZ now & this video really makes me miss France. 🇫🇷💙

[@Kerradia]

"french are good are skiing" well, only the rich one, who can afford that kind of holiday. Me I'm really good at laying on the grass

[@lorischappuis7901]

I'm poor but I live in the alps, so I go skiing as you would practice football

[@VincentLebeau-vlu]

You can go skiing with 1000 euros for 2 and for 2 weeks in France. If you manage it correctly you can even do 1000 for 3 weeks, per person (vu must be 2 or 3). 3 weeks of vacations for 1000 euros : this is the same thing as going to the beach/river. Even some campings are more expansive than that

[@evelynbaron8357]

@@lorischappuis7901 It's like Canadians being good at hockey, although in our case it's also like football to the Brits.

[@PrincesseKes]

Some people are also born in those regions.... Like NORMAL people.

[@phoebus45]

As the French would say “n’en jetez plus”, it’s too much flattery but it does feel good though. You forgot sport. In addition to Football France is the only non English speaking nation at the top of Rugby. We love to play the All Blacks because we share a very open game with our friends down under. We are still waiting to win a World Cup but that’ll come one day.

[@lisatroni677]

I think Italy and the renaissance was pretty influential regarding the arts too 🤓

[@younesbj]

im french, and well, i do like the fact that she said we dominate art, but to be honest, this is not being honest with Italy, or even Austria, UK ... i mean Europe in general is quite amazing about arts and im sure i miss the rest of the world cause i juste dont know what is happening out there !

[@nco1970]

Regarding the ski, there is a very simple explanation: the snow classes. There is a State initiative in France to facilitate the discovery of other regions by children of all social backgrounds. It is organized by schools (elementary schools). The children (mainly from cities, it was not a thing where I grew up, but I grew up in the mountains so I was already in a permanent snow class) travel to another region with their teacher and spend one to three weeks there discovering the environment, the local life and practicing a local sport along the regular curriculum. There is a social aspect to it, the stay being subsidized to make it affordable for most parents. There are 'sea classes', 'snow classes' and 'green classes' (aka countryside classes). The first snow classes took place in the fifties. So a lot of French people brought up in the cities learned how to ski during snow classes.

[@folk2630]

That is honestly one of the coolest things I’ve read about recently, what a great initiative !

[@pilou827]

Well said

[@MarianneExJohnson]

If you're talking about the French and electronic music, I feel Jean-Michel Jarre should be mentioned as well! 😊

[@raphaelfillos6120]

Yes, the dude literally democratized and reinvented electronic music

[@teimegllo3721]

Ouais bof moi je préfère la musique classique

[@benmat]

She also didn't mentionned David Guetta, Bob sinclar, Martin Solveig, stardust, petit biscuit, the avener, kungs, dj snake, etc ... Some of them worth to be mentionned as well :)

[@Rachel-rs7jn]

Yes, that's my French partner's favorite musician!

[@NicolasCharly]

Justice, Daft Punk, Gesaffelstein, Cassius, Air, etc...

[@perthfanny3017]

Yes! As a French living in Spain I do agree: French kids are a delight. You will have a hard time finding a kid that says hi or thank you in Spain. Always loud and rude. Unfortunately they are not taught to take other people into account and that they are not alone, which really shows later on when they are adults. Just look when you go to a restaurant. In France, kids interact with their parents. They have a conversation, almost like mini adults whereas in Spain they are watching something on a tablet or playing on a phone (with no headphones on, of course).

[@helenepriego5343]

Spanish kids are spoilt hell spawn (I’m half Spanish… our mother would never have accepted us behaving like some of these kids !!!)

[@aekriege]

Not sure my previous comment was deleted or not so here goes. Not sure French teens are as well-behaved as described above. Their addiction to digital media is clearly there and I don't think streaming websites for video games turn them into real citizens. I am sorry but I completely disagree with this idealization. In fact, on many levels, a bad type of Americanization has been going on. The consequences can be awful.

[@ruchonnen06_tv36]

@@aekriege N'importe quoi, tu dis ça parce que tu n'as jamais fait attention à comment sont les enfants à l'étranger, l'utilisation des smartphones et autres tablettes par les enfants, au restaurant ou autre, n'est qu'une question d'éducation, tout dépend de nous (les parents), il faut savoir leurs mettre des limites avec les bons arguments... En revanche, je te rejoints sur ce point en ce qui concerne les ados, du moins lorsque nous avons le dos tourné... Et arrêtons de toujours tout mettre sur le dos des USA, chacun est libre de faire comme eux OU PAS, de plus, le phénomène multimédias est mondial et chacun y met son "grain de sel" maintenant. Je te rappelle que nous français, sommes parmi les plus recherchés et qualifiés en création de jeux vidéos...

[@juanme555]

Im sorry but i laughed too much at this.

[@aekriege]

Déjà, on ne se connaît pas donc le 'vous' serait plutôt de rigueur. Je ne me rappelle pas avoir gardé les vaches avec vous. Pas étonnant que vous preniez la défense de gosses mal élevés ! Allez donc voir comment se comportent des gosses américains et vous verrez beaucoup de similitudes avec les petits français. Je suis prof en lycée, notamment en BTS, et j'ai à gérer des comportements qu'on ne voyait pas jusque récemment. Les GAFA et Bill Gates sont américains, c'est factuel. Et oui, avec la mondialisation, certaines attitudes sont visibles partout dans le monde. Ce n'est pas de l'anti-americanisme primaire, de l'hostilité systématique, vis-à-vis des États-Unis puisque je parle des écrans et rien d'autre. J'ai parlé d'un mauvais type d'americanisation car d'autres formes peuvent être de véritables apports. J'ai d'ailleurs vécu là-bas 13 ans alors vos leçons de morale mal écrites... Par ailleurs, quoi l'addiction aux écrans (et l'agressivité, l'exigence de la jouissance immédiate) a quelque chose à voir avec la qualité des créateurs de jeux vidéo ? Par conséquent, voyagez et apprenez à être poli avant de m'envoyer une réponse inepte. PS. Il n'y a pas d'arguments à donner aux enfants pour la limite de consommation des écrans. Ça s'appelle l'autorité parentale. Maintenant, les parents doivent se justifier pour poser des limites à leurs enfants ?

[@MusicJunky3]

I once waited, in a quiet and well behaved large que, for a photography exhibition...in the rain ! Mon Dieu ! 💗I will never forget it !

[@thierryf67]

the context is one of the most important point to understand (that doesn't mean to agree) different opinion, or action. unfortunately, this is slowly lost by new way of thinking coming from US and social media... which judges the past with the eyes of today, and want to remake or erase the History. It's important to know and be aware of the mistakes of the past to prevent them in the future, but to do so, we need to be confronted to these, not hide them.

[@skulduggerypleasant9008]

Ws thinking the same thing, that very important french value of attacking the idea not the person is slowly being forgotten because of the US influence

[@oliveraparicio8464]

It isn't American influence it's transnational corporate influence that just happens to base their headquarters in the USA. American citizens are currently under full blown psychological warefare. Transnational corporations are erasing TRUE AMERICAN history, morals, values, culture and replacing it with degeneracy, materialism, consumerism. American citizens are under attack while being held hostage at the same time.

[@mathildeantoine662]

Hey! Great video :). I'm a French teenager and I can tell you that parents here in France are going through this teenager phase too haha x). We can be terrible child when we're in our teenagers years :').

[@louisperrin2781]

I think parents in France are proud of their kids as long as they're becoming "good individuals", whatever job the kid will have, as long as he's happy and a good person, the parent will be proud of him and happy

[@myfranciefinds2214]

I love how relaxed people are in France from what I could see not so busy as in the USA. I enjoyed how you can go to a cafe and just sit and enjoy your wine or coffee or lunch and not feel rushed I enjoy that. I did notice that a lot of people were wearing white tennis shoes nothing in your face, tennis shoes.

[@annieterminetschuppon7232]

French cannot survive without art. We love visiting, educating ourselves.

[@palupalu5647]

We have survived few months without Museums, concert new movies and shows... Merci Netflix !!!

[@armoricain]

Hello, when you mentioned "LOYALTY IN FRIENDSHIP", I reacted this way: "ABSOLUTELY, ABSOLUTELY!" I am originally from Brittany, France, and I have lived in the USA for 37 years, and let me tell you, I am EXTREMELY loyal in friendship, I take it very seriously! You are right about family bond, trains and... food, of course! And you are also right about French people not mixing their professional life with their personal life...

[@paulettehunter1931]

I am a french teacher in the US and i appreciate that you find something good in my country. Now i want to read at what we suck at! Thanks

[@camillaguidi9060]

As an Italian, I don't like the "the french absolutely dominate the arts" part 😝 (just joking: eternal 'rivarly' on culture, food, wine, ...)

[@annieterminetschuppon7232]

You re correct, we both share the love for art

[@agabekarthur777AAA]

italy is the only european country who can compare to France in alot of way as art, food, cultural approches...

[@Leila2023_]

i was waiting for an italian to argue about some of this lol i have to say... i prefer italian food , cheese and coffee especially

[@camillaguidi9060]

@@Leila2023_Ahaha ikr 😅 I won't argue that we are better at cheese though... I also prefer the taste of Italian ones, but French have more sorts and better-known...

[@Leila2023_]

@@camillaguidi9060 i prefer British cheddar though... it's just a personal preference.. i still eat french cheese because i live in france, but it doesn't really do it for me.

[@carrie618]

So true about debate! While working in the US, I had a boss/manager who was French-Israeli. In my first conversation with him, I said something to him that I would never lead with if I were interacting with a typical American boss. He gave me some advice on hospital politics. I responded, "No, I totally disagree." It was game on. Neither one of us relented. He loved every second of it. We had a great working relationship.

[@TreenaBeena]

Oh my goodness.. YESSS. As an American, SNCF was amazing to me. The US rail company (Amtrak) is awful and largely inefficient. It’s not hard to see why most people don’t use it. The most recent department in France that I lived in had something like 40 train stations to service the needs of around 700,000 people. The county (US ‘département’ equivalent) that I currently live in in the US has around the same number of people, but can you guess how many train stations we have? 0. The region as a whole has over 3 million people, and I think we have 6 or 7 train stations. Train service isn’t often used at all. In order to get to neighboring cities in my area, you must own a car. Even bus service isn’t efficient. The nearest bus stop to me is about 2 miles (3.2 km) away. I don’t know anyone here who takes public transportation, honestly. I understand French peoples’ issues with SNCF, but even on SNCF’s worst days, the French still have it so good when it comes to getting around.

[@gwsteph]

I'm sad to read this about trains in your country. And I agree with you about trains on mine. Personally, ILove trains. You can go from the centre of a city to another one fast, reading, listening to music, watching a movie. Plus, train is better for environnement, far more than cars.

[@TreenaBeena]

@@gwsteph it makes me sad too. Peoples’ quality of life does increase when they know that they can get around affordably and without issue. Plus, it’s better for the environment (like you said) and it can be enjoyable, when it’s not too hot or crowded aboard. I really do believe that many Americans would utilize train service if it was more available to them. I know that many of my friends and I would! Joe Biden supposedly wants to revamp Amtrak to make it more like European rail, and I hope he delivers on that.

[@stephen10.]

i have heard that japan railways is the top , their trains arrive all with less than 1 minute of retard. They are the champion to respect the hour of arrival.

[@imanethe1175]

We just complain at our scale, compared to the US I agree the SNCF is paradise.

[@froggyaa]

yes but you have to look at the scale of the country too it is cheap(er) to fly and driving (sort of) heck what is 900km to the average american by contrast look at how extensive freight railways is don't forget SNCF is public they hit all the town or (nearly all) usa it is private the exciting thing is canadian pacific vs union pacific let's see how this is gonna work out

[@elisagyn3646]

I am from Paris and I think the way you see and describe things is very much linked to the social class you have known and married into in France. You have studied in one of the "best" and most expensive elite business schools in the country in an English-speaking program that most French people could only dream of attending as it's nowhere as easy for us to get into than for foreigners. Besides, you have interned and worked at very "white" elite institutions like l'Oréal or LVMH group, which again wouldn't be so easy to get into for a French person. With a great education and often high income, this social class is indeed more educated about the outside world and intellectual culture but that is not necessarily the case with the working class, even in Paris, for example. A lot of French people have never travelled outside of the country and only take their vacation in their cheap secondary holiday homes in the countryside every year. I am from the middle class and my parents could have never afforded for us to go skiing. The only time I was lucky enough to do so was through a highly subsidized school trip. I think the fact you put "everyone secretly knows how to ski" in this video trully shows which type of people you only got to mingle with in Paris. Others have mentionned it in previous comments on different videos and you kind of dismissed it. Even if French culture tends to consider pivileged people as the devil, it's really nothing to be embarrassed about. It is okay to acknowledge that you've only seen a certain aspect or social class of France so your observations do not come across as offensive to the rest that cannot relate. I am saying that with the best intentions as I love your videos & your personnality !

Yes, it's true, as everywhere, social class and level of education have a big influence in those cultural traits. But I think there are a lot of aspects that are found across social classes. For example, as a foreigner living in France, I have always been surprised by the respect French people have to their free time. There is a social conscience about the fact it is a right conquered after a lot of difficulties. My father in Latin America never took one single day of vacation during 40 years. For him, closing his store was inconceivable. Simply, he never thought about. Here, vacations are sacred, even if people rest at home. The strict separation of personal and public life is other aspect. The politeness or social formality of saying bonjour...

[@rushdialrashed9627]

U r French and ur English is perfect! Bravo dear.

[@Le.dictateur.africain]

You get the point, I totally agree with you.

[@Le.dictateur.africain]

She eclipsed the " Familles Groseille".

[@Le.dictateur.africain]

@@NotEvenFrench Tout à fait, pour un étranger d’une background prolétaire et pauvre, vivant en France, il est difficile pour lui, au début, de faire la distinction entre les deux France : la pauvre et la riche. en effet, le modèle en France c'est la bourgeoisie. D'alleurs, si l'on voit dans les pays dits du Tiers-monde, on aperçoit que tout le monde tend vers une vie à l'occidental, notamment la bourgeoisie local qui imite la bourgeoisie européenne, américaine, c'est un modèle universelle malheureusement. Plus on est riche dans les pays du Sud, plus on imite le modèle de la bourgeoisie occidentale : façon de manger, de s'habiller, le nombre d'enfants, etc. Meme en France, si les locaux reprochent aux immigrés le manque d'intégrations ; en fait, ils leur reprochent en réalité le fait d'être très éloignés du modèle bourgeois..

[@imanethe1175]

We love la SNCF, it's just our complaining culture don't worry, and if we didn't bash them 24/7, who would push them to be this good ha ?

[@elky360]

Hahaha brilliant

[@palupalu5647]

In the eighties, my parents made a round trip with TGV during the day Paris-Annecy Annecy-Paris (860 km, 8 hours), just to see the lake and launch in front of.

[@rob9853]

Let me guess, you work for them. Never in my life I’ve heard anyone says “I love SNCF”, it’s probably the most hated French company 🤣

[@imanethe1175]

@@rob9853 I don't, I have lived in other places and realised how lucky we are.

[@rob9853]

@@imanethe1175 I lived in New Zealand, and then in Tokyo where there’s no match.. when taking an airplane is cheaper than a train there’s maybe something wrong

[@laurenschneider1777]

I love drawing inspiration from your channel for how I love to live my life most! My children also benefit from incorporating French culture into our daily life. It makes for higher enjoyment and satisfaction in our family! Thanks for providing helpful content!

[@benjaminlamey3591]

one thing I have noticed in my travels, the french ingenieur schools are absolute top. Also, I came this week on the ranking of the universities in math, and France had 1st and 3rd place, in front of all amricans and UK universities. It is true that most of the best traders in London a few years ago came out of the french school, they were top grade for all about the computing going on in finance and trading.

[@helenepriego5343]

Oh you’re sure making us rethink our relationship to SNCF 🤔. It’s good to gain that sort of perspective.

[@tailyn]

One thing i feel like we're also really good at is standing up for our rights, manifesting, stuff like that. it's not always to the best but we do it quite well lol

[@greg.m-h]

Vive la République, vive la France !

[@inquisitiveone3579]

I’m going to add one more. French people know how to survive and have a pragmatic view about life. As the child of parents who lived through WWII (now living in the US) unless you live in a country that experienced bombing, machine gun raids, or experienced the mass exodus out of Paris, makes many complaints seem trivial. My mother made sure I understood the difference of saying I’m hungry or I’m starving.

[@alwlcd]

One of the reasons we all know how to skii, is because a vast majority of us learn to skii at school, we all have gone to the Alps for a school trip at least once in our lives haha Feels good to hear what we are good at, it's a great video!

[@alwlcd]

Also, concerning alcohol binging, it clearly depends on where you're living: as soon as you're not in Paris anymore, alcohol is a national sport! No self control when it comes to beer or wine haha

[@larchange1657]

Merci beaucoup Madame , c'est très flatteur et gentil !... a propos, je me suis mis un pouce moi même comme un grand ! ... j'attends tous les autres pouces ....

[@sebastienfrbezar9703]

The problems with the SNCF are mainly with the TER Ile de France, whose network is old and saturated. For the TGV I never had any problems, for a year I took it twice a week (for the Lille-Roissy CDG ride) I only had one delay of more than 15 min and it was because of an abandoned luggage on the platform.

[@Black_Nest]

12:28 We have a big history behind electro in France, it started as science (with the Phonautograph (1857) & Ondes Martenot (1928)) and experiments (Musique Concrète & I.R.C.A.M. (Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music)), then it became underground music and after that, it became mainstream (with the French Touch in the middle of that transition). Regarding electro (talking about different genres and sub-genres combined) a lot of people might think of summer, tropical islands and it's true but you also have throughout the history of that type of music recurrent themes of dark vast unknown environment like space or the ocean, nostalgia, melancholia and loneliness (which can be found in a lot of French arts too sooo I don't know if it gives an explanation or not).

[@hubertguilmain3286]

Un peux exagéré pour certains mais il y a un très grand fond de vérité

[@mikadiscodance4148]

Un peu romancé, limite cliché

[@Kelbourg]

@@mikadiscodance4148 Elle est tombée sur une bonne famille. Elle a travaillé pour une grosse entreprise de luxe, après tout, donc j'imagine qu'elle était entourée de gens à la vie très confortable, etc... forcément ça présente beaucoup de bons côtés.

[@anaisdufetelle7424]

13:00 Hey I love your video ! Just to say that even if I know French people are quite bad at language, we're still able to understand and sing English music or whatever...

[@Rachel-rs7jn]

Another note about Lille (carry-over from last video): you can totally go to the supermarket in your yoga pants! I do it all the time. 😛(Not that that diminishes your overall point about taking pride in one's appearance.)

[@helenepriego5343]

Mmmmm, nice stylish yoga pants maybe. Pajamas, never ☺️.

[@Rachel-rs7jn]

@@helenepriego5343 😄That's fair. I never went in pajamas. 😜

[@jchow5966]

I love how they knoq history & art & beaugy & fragrance. ☮️💟☮️💟

[@metalprophet58]

coucou merci pour toutes tes vidéos! c'est moi ou la France te manque? :p bisous la kiwi :*

[@Faustlemouton]

choupi avec tous ces compliments

[@carinesomers6529]

In a nutshell: "savoir vivre"

[@MathieuDuval0]

Hi, For a French man living in NZ I love your comparison because they are soooooooooooooooooooooo true!!!!

[@leyza9450]

"the French are good with trains" The French : 👀 is it a joke? 😂😂 Trains are always late or cancelled lmao you can't count on it :') But hey good video even if I think you've been in a really well educated and rich environment in France x)

[@sortilien2099]

Go in Germany or England to see train mess. gosh i'm happy to be back in France.

[@romainsavioz5466]

@@sortilien2099 well in switzerland it's ok and the best is japan

[@leyza9450]

@@sortilien2099 but it's not late or cancelled, it's just that the rails are not in the best places, no ? :')

[@sortilien2099]

@@leyza9450 in England ? Railway are in a pityful state... and there is a lot of times that your ticket doesn't work that day... because that's not the same companie it like one day TER was SNCF the Other Day it EDF so not the same price not the same ticket. And being late is quite common in % for compare to france the number of train is low. Germany is more an issue of service... you don't get your next train not our problem it happend to me the hotel night was at my expence. If you go to Berlin or some great city that's ok but if you want smaller town what a mess.

[@Phals]

Yeah she's probably been in Paris mostly or somewhere rich, I can't really relate to anything she said living in the countryside, except for the cultural stuff but it's only because I learned it at school or else I probably wouldn't even know. You're right about the trains, first time I had to take the train it was cancelled, they put everyone who was waiting for it in an alternative train, had to stay standing with like 8 other persons in the tiny space between 2 cars for like 4 hours from Dijon to Paris.

[@lucienlegros1267]

Finally Uppermost is mentioned as a great French electronic music producer!!

[@clementm9161]

Our best skills are : -Complaining, this is a national sport here in France -Being pessimistic -Cursing/swearing -Olala That's about it.

[@zorglub20770]

and self bashing, no ?

[@gj8683]

Well, at least there's "olala" to help keep it all in balance.

[@miyounova]

@@gj8683 probably not the oh la la you're thinking about though.

[@gj8683]

@@miyounova Could that be "troll-la-la"?

[@jocelyneb]

Do not listen to pessimistic ! Live your life...

[@Redgethechemist]

Even Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, OSS 117 spy, would be destabilised receiving so many compliments!😄 Concerning electro, I think Soulwax is a Belgian band.

[@lilou17000]

for the self-control part it's on education, we educate kids to wait for, kids learn frutation is not a big deal. "attends un peu je suis occupée" this sentences i ear from my mom always when i was a kid

[@cquinnth]

Love this video!

[@janelc1843]

14:31 that's completely true for me at least. We eat at/from the restaurant 5 times a year at most, everything else is from home (if you don't count the canteen for me, my brother and sister) so 99,99% of our meal are cooked by my father or my mother (depends on who's home) But I know it's not the same for everyone, my friend eat "home" food when she's with her mom but almost never when she's with her dad so it completely depends on the family I guess

[@fredbcl4828]

Merci de ce beau portrait ! french kiss

[@Lypno]

I love watching your videos as a French person, I learn a lot about myself :)

[@Melckiadee]

Salut je suis français et merci pour les compliments/hello im a french pepole and Ty 🥰 I love you english pepole

[@gpoenviededonnermonnom9005]

ce sont de super compliments, merci, mais un certains nombre peuvent en réalité s'appliquer à de nombreux pays d'Europe. Je pense notamment à tout ce qui touche à la culture, la littérature, l'art. La raison est en fait que nous sommes le vieux continent, avec une histoire riche. Le pays 'Etats Unis' n'a que 250 ans, et la Nouvelle Zélande 100 ans à peu près à contrario A noter au passage que cet argument peut d'ailleurs être valable pour l'Asie, avec une histoire de la Chine par exemple de plusieurs centaines d'années

[@camillaguidi9060]

Je suis d'accord. Cependant, il ne faut pas oublier les indigènes quand on parle de l'Océanie (et même des États Unis je dirais).

[@gpoenviededonnermonnom9005]

@@camillaguidi9060 c'est bien pour cela que j'ai spécifié le Pays États-Unis et Nouvelle Zélande, il y a bien évidemment de l'histoire avant sur ces territoires

[@camillaguidi9060]

@@gpoenviededonnermonnom9005 Ah je compréhends maintenant!

[@Le.dictateur.africain]

tu ne connais pas grand chose aux pays arabe alors. Ils ont une histoire millénaire.

[@gpoenviededonnermonnom9005]

@@Le.dictateur.africain non en effet, mais jsuis déjà pas spécialiste de toute l'Histoire de la France depuis les gaulois, donc ça fait relativiser Je savais qu'il fallait pas commencer une liste ....

[@alix_strikes_again3816]

We are amazing at strikes, criticize anything like French system, French politic, French school and so on… But we are amazing at food, tourism, arts, etc as you said on the video. Vive la France 🇫🇷 😄

[@rob9853]

As a French not living in Paris, I really feel that you’re talking of another country in most of the things you’ve mentioned 😳 The eternal “two Frances”

[@janelc1843]

I agree that most of times people don't realise that France is not only Paris but in this video it really didn't bother me... I'm from the center of France and live in the countryside (next to a city so it's not really "out of nowhere") and I could relate to many of her points

[@София-д3р7д]

Great video!

[@BIGBEN9999999]

the Soulwax brothers aren't from France, but from one of Europe's most beautifull city's: Ghent, Belgium ;-) (none of my dear French neighbours mentioned this in their comments) About the lyrics: French pop music to have rather low level lyrics, but there's also a wonderfull culture of "French Chansons" with amazing lyrics. Poetry on music!

[@jeremy0190]

Jai adoré ! Merci 😘

[@christophepehauarnaudet3620]

Merci ! Une bulle d’air frais ! (malgré le masque)... tout ce qui tu dis est frappé au coin du bon sens mais ici, comme on le voit tous les jours on a tendance à l’oublier ! Merci !

[@emjizone]

4:50 LOL. Uh... I personally worked in this industry for a few weeks, working on expensive leather bags for _Vuitton_ and _Chanel_ , and my opinion on this is that it's not innate at all. Selection of students, studies (grammar, history of art, history of fashion, graphics, English, etc.), training, tests, exams, just to use machines in a long production chain where you work very supervised and no chance to design anything unless you study much much more and pass more exams in competition with others... this is how luxury is made. Do you think that leather bags are made out of taste and divine inspiration, without using computers to study the market? They're made for money, and workers don't discuss art on their lunch break while waiting their turn to use the microwave.

[@claracvln2672]

I'm french and that's soooo true !

[@icitlalistardust9060]

Listening to you, I feel like moving to France.... wait..... I am French and I live in France !

[@thomasalegredelasoujeole9998]

Oh as for kids, we’ve had this old saying « Mieux vaut une tête bien faite qu’une tête bien pleine » (better a head well made than a head well filled) ; or « l’éducation ce n’est pas remplir un vase, c’est allumer un feu » (education isn’t filling a vase, it’s lighting up a fire) ;)

[@veag687]

you should overlap your gifs with when you are talking, gets rid of the awkward silent gaps haha

[@katherinemarsh784]

Bon Soir. It's not about how someone looks. It's about how people feel.

[@Lishy915]

Love this!!!!

[@olivialee854]

Their coffee and boulangerie are pretty good

[@j-cherold2792]

i m french i think without " coffee of civette" italian are the best for this

[@thomasalchimiste8589]

Merci beaucoup!

[@matthieumenard8149]

As a French one, i warn you that you should try swiss chease. They may be better than us in that stuff.

[@Flo-lp6eg]

The kiwi style of short, puffer and barefoot to the coffee shop in the week end

[@dve523]

Soulwax are the Flemisch speaking De Waele Brothers aka 2Many Dj's from Gent, Belgium!

[@patolt1628]

You are so nice with French culture. It's a refreshing change from the ongoing French bashing, especially from the Americans so that I'm begining to really hate them. Thank you

[@greg.m-h]

french bashing.. it sucks

[@markaguilera493]

France at its best is the hub of a kind of world culture. The ideal of educated French people is to at once remain French and become a citizen of the world. It's not only their own culture they're into, but also the culture of other countries. So foreign music, foreign art, foreign thought, foreign food, foreign religion, foreign habits are all welcome. But what has definitely taken a back seat in French culture is religion.

[@greg.m-h]

Vive la République, vive la France!

[@tonymckeage1028]

Good Thursday Evening from New Zealand, thanks for your wonderful not even french video,thank you for sharing, I wish you a great weekend

[@towanga2221]

hello do you know Vendredi sur mer Paradis La femme that's french musicien électronicien very good

[@hshwgw]

Beautiful

[@thecurrentuniverse]

Wow, I am definitely French culturally, that is how I live my life. No wonder I feel like a fish out of water in the U.S.

[@mgparis]

Merci Rosie, bisous de Paris :)

[@thierrymilan2039]

It is very grateful to hear so lovely comment about your nation, so thanks ! However, it seems you experienced your french life in a large city (Paris ?). And integrated with people with very good economic fees. It doesn't reflect french people and french life in rural part of France for some parts of your comments. For example, public transport like train is poor in some rural departements. I agree for education, food and health mainly.

[@NinoJoy]

Soulwax are belgians if I'm not mistaking. F-in love them, just got their Essential "mix" at bbc radio on vinyle for cheap, so great if you haven't heard it.

[@NinoJoy]

oh and yeah don't forget Laurent Garnier, or Micropoint, two legends in their respective's techno genre.

[@annieterminetschuppon7232]

I think our education helps to enlarge our knowledge reason behind our capabilities to extensively speaking about a variety of topics. It goes hand in hand with family education which praises our topics' curiosity

[@cgmonkey]

C’est quand un étranger en parle qu’on se rend compte qu’on est dans un super pays 😊, en tant que français on ne voit que les défauts 😅

[@vbaybay321]

Love this💜

[@ThesaurusToblerone]

I love watching your videos. I get to remiss about France and also learn some things about New Zealand, which is a little bit more different from Aus than I'd assumed (though still almost the same lol). I'd love to talk to you about the French education system and the teaching assistant program they have!

[@Axel_Roffi]

French kiss, French Touch, French Flair...we do not have french words for that so we have to pick those concepts/ideas from the English language, because what is exceptional to NZ, USA is just natural to us, so we do not weed words to describe what is natural to us...and yes, you can add it, we are very good at being arrogant (as I just illustrate and just for the cliché 😉)

[@teimegllo3721]

J’aime trop ton accent anglais quand tu parles français

[@Flo-lp6eg]

Accent kiwi plutôt c est un peu différent 😁😁mais ça habitue si tu veux aller la bas, plus facile à comprendre

[@najnaj9493]

I’m French I don’t know how to sky but everything else is spot on 😂

[@pignonMZ6]

Yes, I mean those are true for the white middle class in Paris/Lyon/Bordeaux, but trust me that world you just described looks nothing like the world of a teenager in Marseille with North African roots, and that's France too no matter what election year it is.. The one thing we do better than anyone is French bashing, we love it, and that's why it's so upsetting when Americans fail to do it as well as we can.

[@patoudelevallois5228]

moi étant français, je considère que nous sommes et resterons les plus gros beaufs du monde et c'est une fierté nationale VIVE LA REPUBLIQUE

[@jean-noelthomas]

Merci. Des fois ça fait du bien de ne pas s'entendre dire qu'on est des nains arrogants...

[@BIGBEN9999999]

You'd translate "métier" with "craftmanship". (and yes, it can also just mean 'job' as in "quel est votre métier?" (what's your job?), but that's not what you were talking about here.

[@Pakal77]

Si on vit à Neuilly ou dans d'autres villes bourgeoises, peut être. Sauf quelques exceptions, ce ne sont que des clichés 😉 Mais merci quand même, ça fait toujours plaisir de savoir que notre pays plaise toujours autant 😊

[@thaleis]

Je suis née et j’ai vécu toute ma vie dans une ville populaire de la banlieue parisienne et je me reconnais pleinement dans ces clichés... Avoir une bonne éducation ne dépend pas forcément du fait d’être originaire de la bourgeoisie. On peut avoir des parents modestes mais qui connaissent les règles élémentaires de la société et savent élever leurs enfants en leur donnant ces limites et le goût du débat et de la bouffe autour d’une table dont Rosie parle dans cette vidéo. Du plus loin que je me souvienne, c’était même la norme dans la majeur partie du pays, que ce soit à Paris ou en Province. Des grandes villes aux petits villages... Qualités qui tendent malheureusement à disparaître de plus en plus avec le temps notamment à cause de ces populations issues d’ailleurs qui balancent leurs sacs poubelles par la fenêtre et laissent leurs gamins faire n’importe quoi au mépris du respect le plus élémentaire vis à vis des voisins. La semaine dernière encore, un petit garçon de 4 ans a été retrouvé seul dans la grande rue passante derrière chez moi car il était descendu du bus dans lequel se trouvait sa mère, descendue quelques arrêts plus tôt et qui l’avait tout simplement oublier dans le bus, trop occupée sans doute à causer au téléphone portable avec sa famille restée au village au point d’oublier qu’elle n’était pas montée seule... de mon temps comme on dit, ça ne se serait jamais produit car une mère tenait la main de son enfant en permanence...

[@Pakal77]

@@thaleis tout à fait d'accord avec vous, surtout si nous comparons le passé proche de notre pays au présent.

[@FlorGosetti]

I don´t know if this would be interesting to someone but I once read in a list of the Zodiac Signs of the nations that France is Libra, I don´t know why, but I remember cause is my sign too (in many countries the sign is given by the independence or foundation day, but the oldest ones not always have precise date of birth). Anyway, I find super interesting that many of the caracteristics listed here matches the Libra description, like: debate ideas, critical eye and logic thinking, art and estetics apretiation, quality crafting, diplomatic aptitude.

[@RGSuperfan]

Nice video. I love your nails!

[@laetitia6416]

I'll try to be kinder toward our train system :P

[@TexasHotel1]

I 'm not sure about all this things. We have what you say but we also have the opposite. It's not black or white.

[@christopheoconnor4251]

If only all of it was true... but I enjoyed it a lot. By the way, I love New Zealand.

[@fredbcl4828]

Otherwise France is not the 7th most important economic power but the 5th or 6th depending on the period considered .. ahead of England or just behind depending on currency conversation rates .. India is well behind!

[@jeroenmeuleman8110]

Soulwax is Belgian, not French. This isn't me trying to be cute, but honestly it's an incradibly grating thing that many people assume some things are French, when they are in fact, Belgian, like Tintin, Jacques Brel, fries, Hercule Poirot, Stromae or Magritte. And it doesn't help that most French people won't correct you when you assume these things are French because either they believe it too or - in some cases - they view Belgians with contempt.

[@jellomiki]

We basically created electronic music, of course we love it, it's almost chauvinistic ^^

[@benoitsantini2997]

Germany

[@NinoJoy]

Germany ? England ? U.S ? Holland ? But we can argue that electro-acoustic and concreat music is the origin, but then you still have Stockhausen a bit earlier, sooooo ....

[@benoitsantini2997]

@@NinoJoy i agree .check krafwerk live 1969

[@NinoJoy]

@@benoitsantini2997 yep, all the proto german / krautrock scene is just wonderful. I had the chance to see Kraftwerk in Nantes couple years ago, their music is a big part of my childhood. I'm also a big fan of Klaus Schulze, it's pretty much transe/forest music avant l'heure.

[@fredericvillemint54]

OMG !!! This is too much. Merci ! It's not nice to tickle French pride ;)))