Geography Now! France - REACTION

[@couronne1003]

Je suis français et je tient a dire que les escargots ne sont pas des insectes mais des gastéropodes, autrement dit, des mollusques terrestres. Salutations.

[@Babe01D]

Il est inculte 😊on a tous la toxoplasmose et ça change notre humeur c’est la faute aux escargots si on est râleur 🤣😂

[@thierryf67]

Snails aren't insects... they are gastropod.

[@Christophe-pl5xu]

Oui , un gastéropode... c est un insecte cul-de-jatte quoi!!😅 En tant que breton je tient à préciser que on a rien a voir avec ce délire culinaire.

[@barrtwattz5246]

​@@Christophe-pl5xuvous ete un peuple vaincu vous etes anglais

[@Christophe-pl5xu]

@@barrtwattz5246 irlandais gallois à 97% et 0% franc selon site d adn en ligne. Et 0% anglais.

[@philipperodeau7716]

​@@Christophe-pl5xuen tant que breton ayant de la famille en Charente , je peux te dire qu'une fricassée de cagouille , c'est un plat de roi ! ...

[@seysselan7480]

@@Christophe-pl5xu La meilleur réponse possible ! 🤣

[@francoisevassy6614]

Do not mix ethnicity and religion, the guy said « Maghreb » which means Northern Africa, most of them are Muslims. Your reaction is very heartwarming : thank you. Greetings from France 🇫🇷, region Beauce : wheat and Chartres’ gorgeous cathedral.

[@XiaoVeen]

with its magnificent illuminations ⛪

[@Belaziraf]

Not North Africa, it only encompass Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria, in this specific and general understanding. North Africa is sometimes referred to "Grand Maghreb" and encompass a little bit more than just "North". And very, very rarely used. So let's stick to common designation of the 3 ex french colonies here. From France oo.

[@dkafeine]

Most of them are true even if some are outdated. And why we like strikes is often to defend the rights that our elders have won. :)

[@Maëlys5673]

en tous cas vous avez bien l'esprit gaulois comme on dit ^^ (français) ; vous râlez, rigolez de vous-même et prenez au sérieux la qualité de vie ! (et votre prononciation est bien meilleure que celle du présentateur du documentaire !) well done mum !

[@rodolphetuveri8923]

As parisian, i would say 80% true. However for big friends i wouldn t say german since they like to take decisions in EU for there own interests without debating with us before lol. Plus, he could have talk about sport, we love football and rugby (especially the last one in south west, like near Toulouse).

[@sdadou49]

Je ne sais pas pour vous mais en fin de vidéo j’ai du lire le sous titrage en anglais pour comprendre ce qu’il disait 🤣

[@LTellinestory]

In France, 5 weeks of vacation ( or 2, 5 days per month worked) is just... the law. You can have more, but your employer can't demand less. At least, officially...

[@EliasBac]

I’ve been living in Canada and the US for the past decade (currently in Canada) and that may be the only thing that makes me wanna go back home 😂😭 Même si ça va encore … je suis pas le plus à plaindre j’ai 4 semaines (après 5ans d’ancienne, CiMer Albert !)

[@daito9941]

it's amazing how much an non french guy can understand that much the french culture and the history and now in 2024 we need in France more people that love the culture, the history and the country even if the governement is not the best actually. love your video and keep going !

[@XiaoVeen]

Le général De Gaulle avait une vision très politisée du fromage. Pendant la guerre il a dit « Un pays qui produit 365 sortes de fromages ne peut pas perdre la guerre ». Puis quand il était Président « Comment voulez-vous gouverner un pays où il existe 258 variétés de fromages ? » En réalité il y a plus de 1200 variétés de fromages français.

[@joeldumas5861]

1199 fromages plus la Vache Qui Rit

[@XiaoVeen]

@@joeldumas5861 L'inventeur de l'ouverture facile, c'est ça la vraie fierté française 🇨🇵

[@PrimAlredge]

Snails are actually delicious with garlic butter, but we don't eat them on a regular basis, they're a delicacy we keep for Christmas. Cheers from Amiens (no one cares about us but our cathedral and the Hortillonages are pretty dope)

[@sibelius66]

C'est tr-s exagéré de nous faire passer pour des mangeurs de cjevuax ou d'insectes, c'est très marginal. En revanche, moi à Noël, I like phesant !

[@Babe01D]

Il ne parle pas non plus du Poitou avec son beurre servi à la table des rois, de ses fromages de chèvre de son marais poitevin et de la fée Mélusine et de notre patois, bien des régions ne sont pas citées tout ce qu’il connaît c’est Bordeaux et son vin triste mais pas surprenant. On aura moins d’envahisseurs voilà tout 🤣😂

[@Pakal77]

As French, I'm happy to know there is at least one American who understand our way of life 🤗 To work is important, but less than our lives ! And we have only one, we should'nt miss it. Another thing: your French accent is light 👍

[@ReactionsbyD]

My mom is French, she keeps me informed, I have learned a lot. I wish everyone else would think like you guys and stand up for their lives (which like you said we only have one) England is even playing around with 4 day work days for the week at 32 hours a week and so far it shows exactly what we all know - workers are happier, working harder and have more free time for their family and errands - oh and so far they are showing the actual buiness is making JUST as much as it makes with a 40 hour week.

[@MawattWillis]

@@ReactionsbyD Bisous à ta maman ;)

[@Effet-danger]

Je suis français et j'adore ton humour j'aime beaucoup tes vidéos mais surtout j'adore quand des étrangers disent qu'ils aiment la France et les francaos car c'est vraiment le plus beau pays du monde bonne continuation à toi 👍👍

[@darksideofthemood]

Hi! French morrocan here. In governmental surveys we never get asked our religion as it's illegal to do so since the incidents of 39-45. We can't, legally, categorize people by religion. I'd also like to note that being Muslims isn't a race/ethnicity. For example I'm north African but I'm not Muslim THO I know white people who are Muslims. Like Christianity it's up to the person's private relationship with god and is none of the government's business. I know for Americans place of birth = religion but it is a very American way of seeing things which I understand to an extend. Fun fact, the biggest Muslims countries are Indonesia and Malaysia. Not arab countries as most would expect.

[@LetsChillPage]

Hi Uncle D, Happy to meet you again. I live in Perpignan now (the Pyrenees mountains to the south, by the sea and bordered by the Spanish border-shown on the map in the video), but I'm Parisian by birth. My two grandmothers were also Parisians, like yours. Some statements in this video should be reconsidered: - Concerning horses, we always show photos of mounted horses to discuss the horse industry and the consumption of this meat (like in this video). But, in reality, the main source is made up of draft horses or draft foals and, more succinctly, of mounted horses at the end of their life. There is still a French equine meat sector, but it is insignificant compared to the pork, beef, and poultry sectors (less than 1%). Half of the equine herd is kept on farms, and the breeding of heavy horses (40% of the national herd) is concentrated in the mountain areas, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Massif Central and Rhône-Alpes. If they were actually consumed in the past, it was especially in times of scarcity (wars, epidemics, destroyed crops due to climatic conditions such as droughts, hail and repeated frosts, etc.). The custom took hold and horse butcheries emerged. But, it was mainly in the north of France (Paris and Parisian regions included) until the end of the 1980s. Previously, they only offered French draft horse meat. Today, most horse butcheries have closed. Those that remain are mainly located in the northernmost region of France (Hauts-de-France ⇾ the region located in the far north of mainland France) and principally offer imported horse meat. Elsewhere, we hardly find any anymore. Then, even if we still find a section reserved for horse meat in hypermarkets, this is very succinct and only offers horse meat from Argentina (not recommended because Argentine legislation is much laxer than the French and authorizes the massive use of antibiotics and hormones). The French sector has become exhausted by consumption habits that have significantly evolved since the 90s. Good to know. Horse meat has a taste very close to that of beef (slightly more pronounced) and is much better for your health (much leaner). It also presents interesting energy qualities. - For snails, 700 million snails consumed in France may seem like an astronomical figure. However, the current French population is approximately 68 million individuals. This, therefore, represents a dozen snails per head (mainly consumed during the end-of-year holidays, Christmas and New Year's Day). In addition, we must remove from this figure tourist consumption, which is not less, since most visitors from abroad, who come to spend a few days in the territory, taste this typically French dish at least once (France being the most visited country in the world with more of 70 million visitors per year). As for the consumption of raw or lightly cooked meat, again, we must put it into perspective: consumption is tiny. The most consumed meat in France is pork, and in second place, chicken. - Regarding the strict rules for broadcasting songs in French on the media, I am always amused that the Anglo-Saxons are surprised, knowing that they themselves mainly listen to the English variety on their media. Other languages are under-represented. In addition, American and English protectionism is much more drastic in terms of the distribution of foreign works (cinema, music, etc.) than the French model. This is also the reason for the existence of channels similar to yours. Note: the word “France” means: “Land of free men”. The origin of the name (frank) is Proto-Germanic and means “javelin” or “spear.” The metaphor of the javelin thrown into the air gave another etymology to the word by defining it as “free” (frank ⇾ free) in the ancient Germanic languages (the “Franks” became afterward the “François” and later the “Français” and, of course, the country “France,” being the country of the Franks by extension, means “the free men's land,” so). Peace, folks. ☮👈😎

[@XiaoVeen]

Well done, I'm french and did'nt know a lot of your explainations 👍

[@sdadou49]

Merci pour les informations sur la viande équine et l’origine du mot France (c’est tout de même absurde d’apprendre le sens du nom de son pays à 40 🙄)

[@micade2518]

re: vacations, it's not up to the corporate management to decide: the 5-week a year vacation is mandatory. And that comes on top of the many Bank holidays (Christmas, Easter, ...) and the "ponts" (bridges): if a Bank holiday, say the 14th July were to fall on a Thursday, the following Friday would be a paid day off too because ... there's the weekend coming just after that. These occurences are known as "long weekends".

[@XiaoVeen]

Many singers come from other French-speaking countries (Belgium, Switzerland, Quebec (Canada), West Africa...) But Belgium is the biggest supplier, that's for sure.

[@christianbasse9960]

Quelle bonne surprise de vous entendre parler en français. 👏👏👏

[@maxxie84]

Horse is not "regularly" and less and less people eat it, but it's so damn good, snails are great too, but only eaten around christmas

[@yvesd_fr1810]

I generally have horse steak once in a while, ca. once every two months... Snails, very rarely but frogs once or twice a year.

[@maxxie84]

Yeah I'd love to eat it more often, but I live in the UK and Tesco stopped selling them as beef now... :p @@yvesd_fr1810

[@Flying-Bunny]

Regular enough to be found in most supermarkets though.

[@ugothesheep]

Jacques Brel... was Belgian not French

[@clovis2104]

Oui qu'il reste là bas

[@PixieDust18]

​@@clovis2104... Il est mort ou veux tu qu'il aille ?

[@fredericmylenium4314]

La Belgique est notre plus proche voisin. On les aime, même si on adore se taquiner. Brel était belge et sa carrière est en partie française. Bonjour les belges.

[@skyla4720]

@@clovis2104 il est enterré en france, rage bien :)

[@XiaoVeen]

Good analysis but he forgot a fact that makes France great, the world record for fastest time for a dog to jump 5 hurdles on a skateboard : 2.46 sec. Proud to be French.

[@emmanuelboudot9631]

About ethnicity ; it's estimate than between 5 and 7 millions french peoples have ( partially or totaly) italian roots because of massive immigration from Italy since the end of the 19 th century.This is the largest sub-ethnic group in France.

[@CatZilla-et-CatKong]

9.23: Alors, NON. La viande crue ou mi-cuite n'est PAS dans la culture culinaire française. Dans notre cuisine, on privilégiera des viandes cuites, fumées ou bouillies. C'est justement pour évité des maladies comme la toxoplasmose (et pour une meilleure conservation de la viande) que très tôt dans notre histoire, nous avons cuit ou fumé nos viandes. Je ne sais pas d'où il sort cette information. 10.05: Petite précision, ce ne sont pas des "déchets" qui sont donnés aux associations caritatives et à la "Banque alimentaire" mais des "invendus" uniquement avec une DLV (Date Limite de Vente) plus ou moins courte. 15.45: Heu... Jacques Brel est belge... 16.27: En France, on dort en moyenne 6 heures par nuit pour un sommeil recommandé par nos services de santé estimé entre 7 et 9 heures par nuit. 16.47: Vous avez parfaitement cerné "l'esprit français". 17.27: C'est un peu plus de 8 heures de travail par jour pour un français moyen. Officiellement, un français doit travailler 35 heures par semaine, mais dans la réalité, il travaille généralement plus de 40 heures (pouvant monter jusqu'à plus de 50 heures dans certains corps de métiers).

[@olivierpuyou3621]

This information is quite accurate. Snails are excellent because they taste absolutely not like snails but rather like melted butter and garlic. It's not true that it rains all the time in Paris.... Sometimes it snows. As for New Caledonia, 3 referendums were voted on and 3 times they chose to remain French. (we can't get rid of it). As for Cheese (fromton or fromtogom in Parisian slang) there are more than 1200 kinds. It's true it's an invasion, in my tiny village in Normandy I have Australian, English and Dutch neighbors.. A real tower of Babel.👍👍😉

[@XiaoVeen]

No chinese tobacco store ?

[@HenriBourjade]

​@@XiaoVeenTo sell tobacco, be french is mandatory.

[@XiaoVeen]

You're right they are french from asian origin, it was a way of speaking.

[@jrault7589]

I am a Frenchman and never ate snails. Some people still eat horses ( it started during the siege of Paris by Prussians when Parisians were literally starving ) but they’re a minority.

[@geriellindemannvhaseyar3513]

WOW, je regarde depuis longtemps tes vidéos, je ne savais pas que tu parlais aussi bien français ! Bravo !

[@pipMcDohl]

i don't have much to say about what was stated. Instead i feel bad for what wasn't stated. As a french i deeply regret how racist a society we are. We got involved in so much bloodshed. Colonization, the Shoah, the Rwanda genocide... Not to mention the ambition of Napoleon who caused his share of dead people and suffering. Slavery under french law, in various forms, had been extremely brutal with abhorrent rules such as the 'Code noir'. Currently racism is gaining a lot of cultural and political weight and i do fear for the future. On the positive side of the unsaid i would mention we have become a mostly atheistic and secular culture even if the newfound strength of racism is still deeply rooted in religion.

[@stephancolantonio5350]

J'adore les vidéos un 👋 de Bretagne en France

[@pozkk7189]

thank u so much for showing this documentary very complete of my country ! Our media aren't able to admit we have in France countless beauties and wealths. There is a French culture contrary to what Macron says.

[@HenriBourjade]

Macron n'a jamais dit qu'il n'y a pas de culture française. Vous vous déshonorez en mettant dans la bouche de notre président élu au suffrage universel direct, des mensonges absurdes fabriqués par des traîtres.

[@GlamityJean]

Hey, I'm french and found your channel a couple days ago, I'm also from the Alsace region briefly mentioned in this video

[@jberlioz]

8:54 if you can do sea shells, especially whelks, you will do snails without a second thought once tried.

[@helenemurard1215]

It rains above the Loire river in France, but south the Loire river, it’s sunny & warm..

[@Lyzbeth_d_Andresy]

Bonjour, Most of the information is correct... Factual. That said, there are some exaggerations thrown in for laughs.... Otherwise, we have 5 weeks of paid leave, it's mandatory. And employers are very regulated in what they can do... it's impossible to be fired by text message like in your country... Cordialement, Lyzbeth d'Andrésy.

[@ReactionsbyD]

yes your workers are respected 100 times more than over here

[@thegremlinss]

@@ReactionsbyD Indeed, America isn't as appealing a place to live compared to France. There, you work tirelessly just to make ends meet, without the security of a proper retirement plan. If you ever require hospitalization, the costs can easily equate to two houses, five cars, and more. What's striking is that Americans seem to accept this reality. In France, if we're discontent, we protest, but in America, if you're dissatisfied, there's always someone willing to undercut you. There's a lack of true solidarity among Americans. The sole form of solidarity among Americans seems to be reserved for their soldiers, which is perplexing because they voluntarily put their lives on the line. However, for those who haven't opted for such a path... Instead of prioritizing investments in domestic development, resources are predominantly directed towards the military. One might question the rationale behind this allocation. Honestly, your country possesses all the ingredients for a pleasant existence, yet it appears as though there's a reluctance to actualize it. That's how the US looks to me, as a French ^^'

[@floflems458]

I leave in New caledonia and yes its beautiful! Thanks for the reaction D

[@maximebriochain5567]

I was eight Y.O. when I ate snails for the first time with a sauce butter and garlic. You rapidly forget you eat these littlr animals. It's so good. But before they got a special preparation. But we don't eat them often. If remember well : baguette and sandwiches came from Itaian migrants who wanted something easy to carry and eat when working. For strikes remember we honor the st of May, as Labor revendication in honor of people who sht and sentsnced to death during strikes in Chicago.

[@nicorodo7161]

3 weeks vacation in france is illegal.... 5 is a minimum :)

[@VeryBerryScripture]

I really like your laid back attitude. You give off a holly jolly kind of guy 🙂👍

[@dv9614]

Normal, il a des origines françaises !

[@DOOMHAMMERUS]

In fact, we have no ethnic statistics. But relatively serious estimates put the number of Muslims at between 8% and 10%. What may seem strange is that the majority of the descendants of these populations are concentrated in the country's urban areas, less so in rural areas.

[@XiaoVeen]

Not so strange unfortunately, Muslim immigrants were parked in peripheral no-man's lands, and as France was unable to integrate them, they are still there.

[@raymondcalbut5681]

We also got electricity since a few weeks !

[@fande...Angelina]

☺

[@maxxie84]

I'd say overall 70% correct, some inaccuracies are due to the things having changed because the video is kinda old. But yes mostly ok :)

[@jmweider79]

Lake Leman does have a bit of France...like Evian, the town where the mineral water is bottled at... I never eat horse myself, or know anyone that does.

[@thierryf67]

the video is somewhat old. there's less regions now as some have merged, and the New-Caledonia referendum was been held, the "remain" vote passed in abstract.

[@AlexAndre-pe7cz]

T'as un meilleur accent que celui de la vidéo

[@Christophe-k8s]

Hello and thanks for this reaction vid. First of this all, your mum did a great jog 'cause your french is rather good. 👏 And, about the video itself, I would say that 80% is right, 15% is approximative and 5% is wrong.

[@rockbleen4386]

Muslim is a religion, not an ethnicity. Indonesia, Maghreb, Tchetchenia (no idea how its spelled) are mostly muslim, from 3 different continents and cultures

[@Nuage9987]

He forgot a few french territories that are NOT embassies. Because of a treaty François 1er signed with the Ottoman Empire in the 1530s France became the owner and protector of all major christian religious sites in the Middle East. Because of this treaty, France still owns monasteries, temples, convents and other thing in the region. Including in Israel (which led to a few heated moments between french presidents and armed israeli agents trying to infiltrate those sites during presidential visits, once with Chirac and once with Macron, who both used their big boy voices to kick them out of those places saying that they will not tolerate armed foreigners stepping on french soil).

[@ArmelleK]

There's even more than this resume, did you ever heard about "le Facteur Cheval" ? He made a palace for his daughter by himself without knowing anything about architecture ! We are a very surprising and unique population loving and hating themselves at the same time and there's about any religion that exist in the world in our beautiful country ! What a mix !

[@arianemartin9659]

Monsieur vous parlez bien mieux que ce jeune homme de la video le Français bravo a vous❤.mais etes vous d orgine Francais ???

[@frm5317]

Most people don’t even know Brazil is neighbour with France..

[@MrNicolasBarte]

25 days of vacation is a legal obligation… no one in France can have less. It is written in our laws 😊

[@AntiFakeNukes]

And don't forget to mention the French women too ! 😍

[@XiaoVeen]

Oh yes you're right, I am a victim of French patriarchal tradition 😉

[@crowblank1]

France is a wonderful country... poorly governed. About the video, there are a lot of "clichés". No, the French don't take naps, it's just an old joke about Corsica. No, not all French people eat snails... personally I love frog legs with parsley 😄. No, each region does not speak its own dialect but like in most countries around the world there are different accents. I also noted an unforgivable error regarding the singer Jacques Brel. He was Belgian and not French and he was a wonderful artist. Belgium also offers great things, they gave us Lara Fabian 😉 . Yes, France is a wonderful country, but a country which is losing its bearings and which will soon lose its soul 🤕. regards and respect from France D. and sorry for my approximative English 😉.

[@thegremlinss]

I agree that France has unfortunately been poorly governed for too long. As for naps, I disagree. Personally, I take them, and many people around me do too. However, this practice is becoming increasingly rare, partly because lunch breaks have become shorter to finish work earlier, and also due to the ubiquity of new technologies. Nowadays, people often spend their lunch break on their phones rather than taking a nap. Regarding languages, although not all regions preserve their dialects, many still do. Just as America normalized English on its soil by removing the right of residents to speak French, notably in Louisiana, in metropolitan France, we also tried to standardize the French language and make dialects disappear to facilitate communication. However, this did not last long in France. Nowadays, there is a renewed interest in regional languages. Young people are reviving the traditions of their ancestors, and this is a positive development.

[@HenriBourjade]

La France n'est pas mal gouvernée. Mais peuplée de gens qui crachent sur leurs élus. Résultat, seules des personnes imperméables aux crachats se présentent aux élections. Il y aurait peut-être de meilleurs gouvernants, mais les cracheurs les empêchent de vivre.

[@helenemurard1215]

People take naps especially down south..who goes out early afternoon in 32°c weather?

[@GlamityJean]

I know at our local farmer's market (I think that's the english term? it's a market that takes place a couple days a week depending on the location) we do have "horse butchery" which is a butcher dedicated to horse meat (though it is far less common than beef or porc for that matter)

[@Vash-ov8qq]

16.45 you are soooooo right mate, i love being french !!!!

[@jberlioz]

8:34 horse meat is excellent, somewhere between beef and venison in taste but absolutely free of the fats you will find in raised beef.

[@manateia]

Yes some people eat Horse meat, there use to be many "boucherie Chevaline" (horse butcher shop) but there's less and less, even tho you can still found horse meat (i don't eat horse). Snails are really good when cooked and seasoned with parsley butter. Regionals languages are less and less spoken only by the old ones, many of those languages can now be studied at university (partly to make sure these languages don't disapppear, just like some already have). The "Academie française" try very often to find french translation for new word used everyday (like blog, hashtag or spoiler) but often those translation aren't use by people, we just now they exist. (for the record spoiler in french is supposed to be "divulgacher", which is actually a new word made with 2 : divulguer (reveal) and gacher (waste), but everyone use spoil). 15:10 it's partly true, some radio are specialised in 80s music, some are specialised in rap or classical music. But for the main radio (radio france) it's true. Greeting from France, Normandy region, known to have more cows than humans 😅

[@leokaizzer4744]

Horse steak is a meal consumed in France maybe not regularly but it's not chocking in France to eat horse, it might suprise a little bit people but it wouldn't be considered especialy exceptional.

[@JohnResalb]

Hi friend. I told you before about the regulations for the music business in France, and I also recommended two stations that I myself listen to, which play latest hits 100% francophone, 24 hours a day.

[@zaboobourgouin7005]

hi I'm French and the French don't eat raw meat?! Except for a dish called "steak tartare" which is freshly seasoned beef with seasoning (pickle, onion, capers, mustard, tabasco... and a raw egg), we mix everything and eat it. :) it's delicious as long as you have good quality meat. Otherwise all French people cook their meat.... And some French people hate steak tartare, snails, horse meat like me for example!! I don't eat horse, and it's very rare to find a horse butcher's shop in France in our time. You have a very good accent :) there are around 6 million French people who are Muslims. French labor law imposes 5 weeks of leave for a year of work, employers have no choice! :)

[@thegremlinss]

Eux et la charcuuterie? Le saucebak c'est de la viande cru, séché mais crû ... et toutes les viandes séchée sont crû

[@pictorelle]

Jean-Philippe RAMEAU ( Les Indes Galantes...)

[@yannrousseau5437]

I hope that one day we will have the pleasure of you introducing us to your mother 😊

[@sibelius66]

Je précise que l'incitation à parler davantage français n'empêche pas l'emploi massif des termes d'origine anglaise. Non, les termes "email" ou "courriel" (french version) ou "hastag" sont encore très latgement utilisés en France, mais surtout chez les jeunes générations (mes deux enfants sont par exemple bilingues...).

[@PixieDust18]

.... Weekend ne me semble pas très français 😂 et au dernière nouvelle c'est pas la faute des jeunes si l'anglicisme c'est lentement installé

[@sibelius66]

@@PixieDust18 ai je dit ou supputé ça ? Soyez moins agressif, ça vous rendra plus cohérent.

[@saberchabbi1162]

Super vidéo tu parle très bien français ❤ vive nice 😅

[@capueli6987]

la viande de cheval est très très peu mangée et heureusement quelle horreur .en tout cas vive les vacances c'est la vie oui c'est vrai qu'ici on aime faire grève pour défendre nos droits mais aussi pour rendre hommage à nos anciens qui ce sont tant défendu pour nos droits . Merci pour votre humour j' adore

[@PierreRipplinger]

I haven't seen horse meat for decades. There is a snail farm close to where I live.

[@thesilencer8074]

Eating horse was quite common about 40 years ago but it is also a prestigious meat and therefore rather expensive compared to beef. This disappeared little by little with the impoverishment of its people who can no longer afford it but mainly because of animal protection associations. And the result is that now, horses are becoming much rarer in our regions and are bred for the very popular horse race for betting, which I find much worse treatment than eating them after raising them happily in the countryside. We will thank the defenders of good thinking for this. No longer wanting to eat horses means greatly reducing their population and reserving the little that remains for practices in which the most inhumane mistreatment (doping, selection and genetic crossing) can be allowed. Too bad, the taste of horse meat is truly exceptional.

[@ChrisG-rl3yv]

Bravo pour vos vidéos réalisés avec bonne humeur et humour, vous parlez très bien le Français, il aurait pu être ajouté au reportage le Français louisianais, Français cadien ou Français cajun parlé par des Américains qui se battent au quotidien pour continuer à le faire vivre !

[@PierreRipplinger]

The North Africans in the pie chart are mostly Muslims. (Muslim is not a geographic origin.)

[@zoolooz2327]

horse WAS consumed regularly...it was an old doing of soldiers from 18/19th century during wars. they had to eat their horses to stay alive...fast forward a bit and horse meat devellop quite a bit for a century or so. Habits of eating horse meat kinda died of in the 60's or 70's. You can still find a handfull of horse butchery in france and some people still eat it as a delicacy but I would say 98% of people don't eat horse nowdays

[@KairAlzahir]

In northern France, the "boucherie chevaline" still existed when I was a kid. I ate horse on a regular basis 30 years aggo. A lot less now.

[@thierryf67]

@@KairAlzahirso am i, in the south of France

[@jean-Pierre-bt8xw]

The North African+Maghreb are more or less Muslims... but only a bit more than half are full Muslims... which represents 5 to 6 % of the entire french population... But the 1st religion here is.... Atheism ! Many were christians (mostly catholics) at birth but but with time, the revolution and with the growth of knowledge in sciences, French became less and less religious.

[@benpra6784]

Hi, first i like a lot your videos. As a french and in respect of our dear neighbours, i have to say that Jacques Brel ain't french but Belgian. Thanks for your reactions.😁

[@benoisette9418]

My small village got mention! ... Ô VINDIEU IT'S BECAUSE OF OUR CHEESE YAAAAY LONG LIVE BEAUFORT(the city not the sea, also the cheese)

[@pequeuxdarleux1480]

Nous avons des volcans en France mais ils sont éteints : dans le centre du pays...dans la région nommée "le Puy de Dome" "massif central". Et on consomme de la viande de cheval particulièrement dans le Nord

[@ShadowandFlamme]

13:27 the fact that the corsican pannel is intact is incredible considering the amount of those getting shot at by some very angry people living there. (If some of them read that, I love you guys, don't kill me pls)

[@regineregine8557]

Yes we have old dialects, but breton and basque are true langages. Greetings from Brittany.👋

[@moattib]

Mr jacques Brel was BELGIAN not French

[@basseon]

They're banning words like weekend, and we do the same thing in Québec we're called xenophob and racist. We have the same kind of regulations, like a minimum quota of French music on the radio. And we have way more incentive and rationale to protect our language, if we don't, it's gone in a generation over here.

[@leyoshivenere350]

I've already eaten rabbit, frog, horse meat, duck, goose, bull tongue, but never tried snails x)

[@PierreRipplinger]

The new bill raised the age of retirement to 64. Many people couldn't go to retirement at 62 anyway because of long college courses or unemployment periods.

[@ameliehohweiller7981]

I can confirm that I, as a french person, regularly eat horse meat. tastewise, it's quite close to beef (maybe a tiny bit stronger). a big advantage is that it cost way less than beef. not all of french people like it, though. some wont eat it because of their moral convictions, and some don't like it because they weren't used to it when they were young. when I manage to wake up in time on saturdays, I like to go to the marketplace and get some fresh horse meat for lunch as a tartare. but then again, not everyone enjoys raw meat, let alone raw horse meat.

[@marie-annickbroutin2179]

That was correct except for snails which are not insects and we get by Law, 2.5 days of vacations per worked month which makes 5 weeks per year

[@adelineduprat6333]

Je suis française et jai beaucoup aimé cette vidéo. Cest une généralité mais dans l'ensemble c'est très juste. Les dialectes régionaux se perdent malheureusement. Les personnes âgées parlent encore le provencal ou le gascon ( sud-ouest de la France). Personnellement j'adore les escargots 🤣🤣, mais hors de question de manger du cheval ou du chevreau. 5 semaines de congés par an pour mes salariés et 16 semaines de vacances scolaires ( je crois).

[@Thorneblade]

Oui, on aime les congés (vacation) mais en même temps, on est très efficace au travail (see the video of D about "le viaduc de Millau") ce qui donne une des plus grandes productivité en Europe, au coude à coude avec l'Allemagne.

[@Syntaxounet67]

I'm French and I can't eat snails too ^^

[@napoexocet1366]

New Calédonia représentant ☝️🫡

[@alex__andrei]

Please react to Geography Now Romania too! 😊

[@squall046]

I think that requests are made on Patreon.

[@hellemarc4767]

His French is terrible... 🤣 On the German borders, many people speak Franconian, a Germanic language. People work for its preservation (but they speak it on the German side of the border as well, so it won't go extinct anytime soon). Horse meat used to be consumed in the past, not regularly, but not rarely, either. There were even butchers specialized in horse meat, but not anymore, now, and I don't know anybody who would like to eat some.

[@CQUILPATRON40]

C'est super bon pourtant, vous devriez essayer si vous ne l avez jamais fait

[@mehdythirion1914]

Tu a encore des boucheries chevaline, notamment dans le Nord...

[@HenriBourjade]

​@@CQUILPATRON40La viande de cheval a un goût plutôt trop prononcé.

[@tribuletrib2497]

A little outdated but I can tell you it’s true we can eat horses, ( personnaly my favorite meat) it’s way less nowadays as horse butcher are getting harder to find to find but it’s still there.

[@thegremlinss]

Almost all of this statement is true. However, the demographic information is outdated. Regarding New Caledonia, it remains under French sovereignty since the vote to decide whether to pursue full autonomy or remain part of France resulted in a narrow victory for remaining a part of France.

[@maxxie84]

Horse meat is great!!! (not everyday though) -- Snails too, you gotta try :)

[@pmp1350]

Forgot eating frog !!!

[@captainphoton1693]

France is one of the most notorious internet power. And is known to have some of the best fans. Obviously it depend on a country interest. But as an example. E sports is more popular in the US. Despite this, France 2nd league tickets sell more than any 1st league in the US. French online events also casually raise 10 millions every year for charity. And while other contres like Germany are plainly respected on the r/place event. And everyone let them do what they want etc. France get attacked all the time by larger communities or nations. And yet is always in the top largest size, and activity in the entire event.

[@syllb7234]

80 % right

[@SKLZ0]

J'adore le cheval mais on n'en sert plus dans les restaurants en France. Heureusement il y a reste la Suisse et la Belgique !

[@FenikkusuNoIkki]

15:43 connerie monumentale le gars là, Jacques Brel était Belge, pas Francais.

[@micade2518]

Jacques Brel was not French, but Belgian.

[@melinou1116]

Well, regarding religion, the majority of French people are either agnostic or atheist. Christians come next, followed by Muslims (8%, don’t believe what the media says). Judaism is third, and then come other religions like Buddhism or Hinduism.

[@Akhernatos]

About the CSA and CNC in France; I actually don't know if the numbers are accurate, but the idea is still real. During the day, majority of musics on radio should be french (or french-speaking) and quite recent. During the night, the regulation don't put as much pressure. The idea though is to help french artists to have visibility. Without the CSA regulation, radios would probably always play songs of the TOP 50 Worldwide to attract people. So they choose to force everyone playing french songs, to limit the difficulty for french artists to live from their music. Overall, this video is not "wrong", it's more like "unaccurate". The point was more to discover a country in a funny video, but of course, you can't shorten such an old country history in 15 minutes. He had to do shortcuts. Actually, as a french, you would understand everything, every jokes, but as a non-french you can be misdirected sometimes. Not that you would understand something totally wrong, but you would miss the exact meaning. An exemple of that (among others) is when he talk about "friendzone" in the end. He says that Japan and Germany are close friends from France, and even if it's not wrong, it's hard to place them on the same level. German and french GOVERNEMENTS are really close and have strong relations, but german and french people are just neighbours. We are not really close, we don't really despise each others (exept for deadbrains racists that keep refering to WW2, but who cares about racists opinion). On the other side, french people (especially young generations) and japanese people do have this mutual fascination he's talking about, but our governements don't interact that much (just like the USA don't interact that much with India, for exemple). Most of the video have this kind of unaccuracies, but it's nothing really important, no big deal. This videos are funny introductions to other countries and cultures, not documentaries, so you can consider what was said as "good enough".

[@uweinhamburg]

If you get the chance, try some snails - it isn't very special and nearly all the taste is butter and garlic and some fresh herbs, but who except some vegans doesn't like butter and garlic and fresh herbs...

[@JhonMichel-lb4nx]

GEORGRAPHY NOW INDONESIA

[@annethiran9301]

Thank you for you interest of Other land than USA. P.S.: Sorry....but Jacques Brel is NOT french....he is Belgium

[@rickdeckard2240]

The only big mistake is Jacques Brel who's Belgian. Now about Horse meat, no one in France (almost nowadays) eats horse meat. Actually in France horse meat has been a huge consumed meat after the mechanical car replaced the horse driven cars. After the second world war the gas motor car and farm tractor replaced quickly the horse driven vehicules, so there were so much old, wounded horses in the country that... yeah our grand parents and parents would just eat their meat. But today no, it's definitely NOT a popular eated meat, it's probably even really, really rare.