American Reacts Geography Now! France

[@Dugeek98]

Just to correct a little mistake in the original video, France has the biggest Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) with 11.7 Mkm² whereas the US has 11.3 Mkm² and is the 2dn biggest of the world. Also, French rarely eat frogs and snails (they are only often eaten in some region and by tourists), but it's true that we love atypical meats, especially ducks and rabbits. Apart from that, this video was very cool =D

[@MCAurel]

Pour les grenouilles je suis d'accord (je n'en ai jamais mangé d'ailleurs) mais les escargots se mangent surtout en fin d'année (Noël et nouvel an) donc on en mange beaucoup mais seulement a une période donnée un peu comme la fondue ou la raclette (même si raclette en été c'est sympa aussi)

[@Hunterend07]

@@MCAurel Je mange des grenouilles plusieurs fois par an surtout en été.

[@Dieucreateuruniversel]

@@Hunterend07 quand je pense au cuisse de grenouille qu'ils ont au états unis je me dit qu'avec trois grenouille t'a un repas complet, des cuisse de grenouille taureau ça fait des cuisse de poulet limite, et eux ils font la fine bouche mais mange du croco normal au restau...

[@yann1922]

Moi je suis plutôt friant de cheval, j'ai jamais vu quelqu'un d'autre que ma famille en manger alors je sais pas trop si ça ce mange beaucoup

[@MCAurel]

@@yann1922 Je sais pas si ça se mange beaucoup, mon père aime beaucoup le cheval aussi, perso ça passe pas

[@the_sn1per240]

Hi I'm French. One of the speciality of the France is the bread, we litteraly eat bread in every meal! And yes we eat snails but it's only on specifics events like Christmas!

[@luckyfreddy3743]

Tu dis que des conneries c’est incroyable

[@the_sn1per240]

@@luckyfreddy3743 par rapport à la qualité de mon anglais ou ce que je dis ?

[@the_sn1per240]

@@luckyfreddy3743 en tout cas je t'assure que dans ma famille c'est le cas

[@akunamasutra]

J'ai jamais manger d'escargots de ma vie, ni de grenouilles... Suis-je anormale?

[@erwanguillemette522]

@@akunamasutra non tkt c des spécialités françaises certes mais tout le monde en mange pas et bordel l’escargot c un mollusque pas insecte

[@virginiepcht1051]

" they don't discreminate: they hate everyone equally". Ça m'a tuée x)

[@faycetoofayce7721]

Comme dirait leodagan dans Kaamelott "pour ça comme pour le reste on n'est pas à la hauteur de la réputation" lol

[@mmmargh4743]

J'espère que ça ne t'as pas tué trop fort, j'aime les renards

[@faycetoofayce7721]

@@mmmargh4743 hein ?

[@Tony-rc1nh]

VIVE LA FRANCE 💪🇫🇷❤️

[@cathonatio8100]

Ouais 👍💪

[@lesbretonsdominentlejapon2848]

Vive la Bretagne !

[@cathonatio8100]

@@lesbretonsdominentlejapon2848 Vive la Bretagne Française 👍

[@SIP100Ka]

Vive l'Alsace

[@cathonatio8100]

@@SIP100Ka Vive l'Alsace Française 👍

[@thomasalegredelasoujeole9998]

Nope, snails absolutely aren’t insects. Besides, they are not consumed all over France that much. Haven’t had a single one myself. As for Cazu Marzu, that corsican/italian cheese with maggots ; I doubt there’s over 30.000 Frenchies who ever had some. But we like to shock gullible foreigner with that bit of trivia ;)

[@ignatiuskhan]

I confirm. You CAN have snails in France. Doesn't mean you have them on a regular basis. I never have them.

[@Dragonalfanimations]

I lived in Corsica for 15 years and saw the Casgiu Merzu only once, and I can promise I'll remember the smell for the rest of my life. You can't sell it because it is illegal for obvious reasons (eating live maggots isn't the smartest idea). Let's consider that in the 30.000 French people who consumed it, there are 90% Corsicans (because you'll only find it in deep mountains and places that aren't easy to find), I really doubt 10% of Corsicans did eat Casgiu Merzu. Shit's really hard to find lol

[@thomasalegredelasoujeole9998]

@@Dragonalfanimations definitely ! Only some Sicilians and very few Corsicans will actually eat that stuff ^^ It’s probably a better explosive ordnance than cheese to be honest 😄

[@ignatiuskhan]

@@Dragonalfanimations I had it once. Well, I tried to. I like a good old Camembert, I like Munster and Époisse, but this one, not only was moving because of the maggots living within, but I couldn't cope with its heavy, striking smell of old urine.

[@thomasalegredelasoujeole9998]

@@ignatiuskhan yep ! The smell of urine is ammonia. That’s why i made the explosive joke ^^

[@RomvlvsRoma373]

i sleep less than six hours a night and I have two jobs. this stereotype is completely false French works as hard as other Latin or Anglo-Saxon countries Et il n’y a pas d’heure pour l’apéro 😂

[@ignatiuskhan]

Agree with you. I did that for 20 years... and took the scarce "apéro time" off my sleeping time.

[@cykablyat6531]

*"In 2019, ranked on GDP per hour worked, the UK came fourth highest out of the G7 countries: France 1st (77k USD per hour), US 2nd and Japan 3rd. UK productivity (64k USD per hour) was around 17% below France and the US."* (commonslibrary parliament uk research-briefings sn02791) *"UK second to France again for attracting foreign investment in Europe in 2020" The UK lost its crown for the first time to France in 2019"* (Guardian 7 June 2021)

[@kayd6572]

Well technicaly there is, but it's true a huge portionof our population doesn't suit to that stereotype. But e could if we wanted/could

[@RomvlvsRoma373]

@@kayd6572 Hehe in France it is like all the other countries where neoliberalism reigns, if you don’t work you’re starving everyone can stay quiet and take naps but it's hard to sleep with the empty belly 😂

[@nby149]

Ce que tu dis est vrai, ...Sauf pour l'heure de l'apéro ;)

[@Spitfirator]

As a Frenchman, I must say, I am VERY proud of my country 😁🇫🇷

[@maynamar2517]

Do you live in the Kerguelen Islands?😁

[@798jeremy]

Yeah, but don't be too proud, because it can be seen as a racist or fascist behaviour these days...just kiddin' : f**k these people who think that, even though they're the dominant force since these last 40 years or so...

[@Spitfirator]

@@798jeremy yes I understand what your telling me, patriotism is often mistaken with nationalism…

[@sibelius66]

So I !! Et on s'aperçoit également que sans la France et son influence politique, les Etats-Unis ne seraient pas devenus ce qu'ils sont ! Et même, les Etats-Unis d'Amérique auraient pu devenir une colonie.................française !! Mais respect à nos amis américains !

[@Spitfirator]

@@sibelius66 tout à fait. N’oublions pas la gloire d’antan, et cette malheureuse défaite de la Guerre de Sept Ans !

[@joeyyybadass9615]

30 to 40% of English words came from French language for example ( fiancee entrepreneur) etc....

[@tomf3150]

And they still hate us for that :D

[@phildou5723]

You are soooooooooo right for the words...but I m From France and WE don t hate anybody..really 😁🌹😅

[@wertyuiopasd6281]

41% to 60% rather.

[@fontainefranck9790]

As a french citizen from DOM TOM im suprise by the quality of this videos is really complete and well done, nice job, Merci pour la réact c'est cool que les gens ;)

[@jungbolosse3034]

Koiffé?

[@babywu7188]

Depuis 2003, les territoires ultra marins français ne sont plus appelés DOM-TOM mais DROM-COM-TAAF (Départements et Régions d'Outre Mer et Collectivités d'Outre Mer, Terres Australes et Antarctiques Françaises) en terme de juridiction. C'est par habitude qu'on les appelle comme ça mais il faut la changer :)

[@le_souverainiste_francais7420]

That's my country (and i'm in front of the Leman lake) Long live France 🇨🇵 Vive la France 🇫🇷

[@DavidDiFrancesco-hy1zc]

74 le seul departement collé au deux meilleurs pays frontaliers de la France

[@judicaelmayne9274]

bah y a pas de quoi se la peter

[@teotik8071]

German here. In case the statue of liberty is going to raise a french flag on the White House at least the US would evolve and become a more likeable place. 🤣

[@christophermichaelclarence6003]

Me as French : God dammit German Lorraine and l'Alsace are ours

[@planteruines5619]

Sorry i got a little Pomérania here , did you loose it?

[@thomasalegredelasoujeole9998]

Frenchies be like « shuuuush Germany, don’t tell them about our very secret nefarious plan ! »

[@baptisteheraly196]

Ich liebe Dich mein german neighboor ! ;)

[@Whyking_82]

Oui.

[@tibsky1396]

He gave the example of the Hundred Years' War, but at that time it was especially a War against England, not UK, because they were allied with the Scots.

[@clementmaire9658]

It was not even really a war between France and England as the concept of countries/nations did not even really exist back then (except maybe in the last phase of the war) : it was really a war between 2 French families (the Valois and the Plantagenêt). As the Plantagenêt owned the throne of England, they thought they could use some English peasants to go to war for them.

[@christophermichaelclarence6003]

It's the Auld Alliance, you're talking about 🇫🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. For intel, our country France is actually and currently the most successful military power in History which means it has the most military victories throughout centuries. (The French fought most War than any countries along the British) 🇫🇷 : 1115 🇬🇧 : 1105

[@AzulinhoAzulinho]

@@clementmaire9658 _"the concept of countries/nations did not even really exist back then"_ Oh I can't agree with that at all. Yeah they did! Kingdom of Scotland founded 843. Kingdom of England founded 927. Kingdom of France founded 987. England conquered by Normans 1066. Almost 3 centuries later the Hundred Years' War starts! (1337)

[@kevinchiquet7174]

@@AzulinhoAzulinho That are realms but not really Nations or countries as we hear it today but it was during this war this concept was "born" even if the Kingdom of England was ruled by a French dynasty 😅

[@AzulinhoAzulinho]

@@kevinchiquet7174 I disagree entirely with your proposal. Well yes, England is a conquered nation, of course. But it is a nation, and has been a nation since 927. Facts are chiels that winna ding.

[@geekdaddy5351]

Strangely, you forget one of the most particularity of france : the number of town. The is 36 000 towns in France. When European Union have 12 country, ther were more city in France than in the other 11 country together...! In fact, it's make a big difference when you want to rule the country. For the same number of people, it's much more hard to "control" a lot of little municipality than control a big city.

[@jacobiniste]

There is 27countries in EU* but thx you

[@themissakura599]

@@jacobiniste not initially.

[@mijazukant]

@@jacobiniste you can't read very well, can you? 😂

[@MajaxPlop]

well the definition of town depends on languages and countries, I think what we call "communes" aren't comparable to what Englishmen call "towns" in my opinion

[@geekdaddy5351]

@@MajaxPlop I agree with this. When I talk about "town" in France, I mean the place that have specific mayor. Even where I live (240 people) we are a autonome place, with an elected mayor That's what I count when I say "town". So there is more than 36 000 "towns". And its more than in the rest of the other 11 country of cee when cee had 12 country.

[@k1ngst0n33]

Jacques Brel is from Belgium, not France. He is one of the most famous Belgian artists and they are really proud of it, so we can't steal him from them.

[@francis_p]

In New Caledonia, that referendum in 2018 rejected independance. A 2020 referendum on the same subject yielded similar results but with a narrower margin. And a third one is to be held in december this year, but polls indicate a 50/50 situation and the government is bracing for possible electoral violence

[@Makapida]

Most of the wars France endure in the old days (mainly with the english, the traditional enemy) were because of its incredible agricultural potential. Until 30 years ago, France could have fed the whole Europe without any problem… now, thanks to EU, it has become the biggest importer for fruits, vegetables, and meat. Everyday a farmer commits suicide… authorities are becoming concerned because in the next 10 years some 130 000 farmers will retire and there is nobody to succeed… crushed between France’s taxes ans rules system and EU dictacts to favor ‘less developped’ countries, they cannot compete and can no longer live off their work…

[@zigomar-4]

👏👏👏 Just an add : "to favor less developped countries"? Or to favor more developped stock exchange prices? 🤔 France seems to be, by far, the most advanced country in a "no country" process. An economical globalized area where no national culture is bound to survive anymore. Agriculture : done Health, Education : in process...

[@arkasonus7678]

@@zigomar-4 France is becoming an African country. Belgium will probably follow.

[@felixlafleurie7856]

@@arkasonus7678Turkey... Will became the next IS califat.... We French will keep France.... Alive

[@anaisc8733]

@@arkasonus7678 I guess it's why the 2022 presidential election is important, things could take a drastic turn by electing Le Pen or Zemmour, or we will drown. We will see.

[@arkasonus7678]

@@felixlafleurie7856 l'européen peine à jouir pour faire un enfant par femme alors que les africains tournent à 4,5,6,7 enfants par femme. C'est mathématiquement plié.

[@josephrousseaux9068]

J'espère pour lui qu'aucun Belge passe dans le coin, quand il a parlé de Brel

[@lifeisoverrated7167]

Actually, there are way less snails eaten by french, most of the french snails are eaten by strangers

[@bipboup7761]

No

[@bipboup7761]

Just cause you never eat them, it doesn't mean the French do. Just because so much people in urban areas lost their culture and don't do this or that, it doesn't mean that everyone does.

[@lifeisoverrated7167]

@@bipboup7761 i'm not even from urban area, and sorry but everybody I've talked with either never ate it or only once, very few ate it multiple times, and when they did so it always was for special occasions (birthday, marriage, ...)

[@Checkyx]

@@lifeisoverrated7167 the only person I know who eat snails are from Lyon

[@KyrilPG]

Actually most of restaurants having snails on their menus are touristic restaurants. The retail supply chain of snails is a lot more oriented towards French customers but it has huge peaks during year's end holidays (Christmas and NYE). The average week public demand for snails is fairly low. The largest year-round supply chain is mostly for tourists restaurants... It doesn't mean French people don't eat some during the year but that it is quite far from an average everyday common product. In fact the crushing majority of snails eaten by the average French are poor quality, industrially prepared snails imported from Eastern Europe. (The quality problem doesn't come from the origin of the snails itself but industrial process and bad transport). The production in France is so extremely low that the overwhelming majority of French people in the last 30 years have never actually eaten true French snails. 95%+ of those who've eaten snails have eaten imported snails and more than half the time industrially processed. The fraction of the population who has eaten French grown, traditionally and locally prepared & cooked snails is infinitesimal. Most people thinking they have eaten the real thing are wrong. Even starred restaurants use imported snails but they tend to cook them the right way. Most tourists restaurants use processed, readymade industrial imported snails... If you regularly eat snails, check the product label : you'll almost certainly find they've been imported and industrially prepared with a butter emulsion, sometimes with artificial flavors and other chemicals. And even if your favorite restaurant assures you it's local and traditionally cooked inhouse : chances are they're lying to you and using restaurant specific, product line industrially processed snails, they simply reheat. Or they mix a premade kit for them to be legally claiming it's prepared cooked inhouse. Most of the time a simple inspection of the size ratio between the meat and the shell is enough to see that a particular body isn't in the right shell. Meaning it has been processed in a factory where meat and shells are separated and reassembled at the end of the process. There simply isn't enough snail production in France to cover more than 5% (max) of the restaurants, let alone any of the frozen or readymade products you can find at your local supermarket. The very few French snail farms are usually quite ethical. They wait for the snails to enter hibernation unconsciousness before boiling them instead of boiling them alive and awake like for imported ones that are boiled in Eastern Europe to extend shelf life. And to be honest, anything with butter, parsley and garlic tastes exactly the same. Just melt the traditional 'snail butter' on a piece of toasted brioche and it will be similar without the need to butcher snails... It barely has any taste by itself, and if it does have an earthy flavor it's likely that it has been badly prepared and they forgot to cut the stomach and gastrointestinal tract off...

[@cykablyat6531]

*"In 2019, ranked on GDP per hour worked, the UK came fourth highest out of the G7 countries: France 1st (77k USD per hour), US 2nd and Japan 3rd. UK productivity (64k USD per hour) was around 17% below France and the US."* (commonslibrary parliament uk research-briefings sn02791) *"UK second to France again for attracting foreign investment in Europe in 2020" The UK lost its crown for the first time to France in 2019"* (Guardian 7 June 2021)

[@ChachouLP]

As a French ... I'm proud :) Greeting from Paris

[@harryoleary9965]

22:43 Of course France could survive without the EU, any country could. Survival isn't the point of the EU. The EU is about making trade easier and bringing Europeans together to create a sense of unity. It's no surprise that in the whole of Europe, the EU nations have not fought each other since it was created. Meanwhile factured Eastern European nations have been embroiled in bloody conflict constantly, it has died down abit though. The idea that Conservatives don't support the EU because of patriotism is absurd, pretty much half of the members of the EU parliament are Conservative and I also support it. It ain't perfect but I would rather fight those imperfections with my vote, than to just cut loose and politically/economicly isolate ourselves from our neighbours. Britain dropped their trade deals with their neighbours for a single trade deal with Australia, which is half way around the world.

[@harryoleary9965]

Worth noting that some Conservatives don't support the EU and neither do Socialists so this isn't really a right or left issue. Some Conservatives support the EU and some Liberals support the EU, it's really only the few but loud extremes that are against the EU. Like the nutjob alt righters and the useless fairy socialists.

[@marcusfranconium3392]

Correct , The carolingian part is an importand historic fact as it was the empire that encompassed the region what whould later become the 6 founding nations of the EU West franconia turned in to france , Lotheringia turned in to the Benelux region (switserland although neutral they have a big part in european history)and italy and eastern Franconia turned in to the holy roman empire . and later germany . Even the old Hanziatic league could be considerd an early form of common market. and britian also left that 2x and Charles the VI kicked them out of londen and when he lost the throne he needed the Hanziatic league to bring him back in to power . Elizabeth then again kicked them out of londen and it whent down hill with the economic state realy fast as they could not compete with the hanziatic fleet . A lot of history is repeating it self . And the Anthem of the EU Ode to joy , is a real symbolic song as it tells exactly that all peoples are brothers and family . Looking back to the earlies days of europe with charlemagne the carolingian empire fankish empire , all enbodied in that song.

[@dangrey1852]

Agreed. The EU ain't perfect but it certainly is the best and most stable union Europe has ever had.

[@tibsky1396]

@@dangrey1852 And yet, as a French, it's a Trojan horse for me.

[@valeriedavidson2785]

Harry O'Leary. Taking away a country's identity and independence is never a good idea. How anybody with intelligence could possibly, willingly, sign their country away is a mystery to me. I detest the E.U. They have not kept peace with anybody. The United Nations have done that.

[@UltiK]

Things to know with France (the first is important) : - France have the biggest EEZ, before the US. - It's Champs Elysées, not chams elisee :) - Frogs are consumed rarely !

[@Falconioti]

Frogs and snails !

[@wertyuiopasd6281]

snails are more consumed. Frogs are really really really rare though indeed.

[@UltiK]

@@wertyuiopasd6281 yeah I like snails but I think I never ate frog. ^^

[@toniodelasalle9630]

C'est amusant d'écouter ça en tant que français !

[@theocollier4852]

J'ai rien compris 😭

[@matteofien-masson7444]

J’ai essayé de comprendre comme je pouvais 😂

[@archimade]

Pourquoi le mec a un accent allemand quand il parle notre langue xD

[@DODO2.0]

@@archimade Il n'ont pas du tout d'accents allemand mais si tu as cette impression c'est parce que l'anglais et l'allemand sont des langues saxones

[@Fuyu_ImpactTV]

@Yvon je pense surtout que c'est à cause de notre "r", qui vient de la gorge, et seuls deux langues ont ce r : l'Allemand et le Français. C'est très difficile à prononcer pour un étranger parce que ça implique des muscles de la gorge et de la langue qu'on utilise normalement pas pour parler, donc quand un étranger y arrive il aura tendance à forcer ce r parce que pas de contrôle de la force mise dans ces muscles. Et comme le r allemand est plus prononcé que le r français... ben ça donne ça. Parce que oui l'anglais et l'allemand sont des langues germaniques mais au niveau prononciation c'est le jour et la nuit.

[@jetaddicted]

Fun forgotten fact: France is the only American country (yup, I wrote it) with bits of territory both in Northern and Southern America. Geez, we should play in the copa America!

[@ryubix5724]

We are technically in the Gold Cup and CONCACAF Nations League it's good. Let's not forget we also won the OFC Nations Cup in 2012 with Tahiti

[@imnotenglish9838]

Hi what do you mean by "american country" ?? I'm so confused ;-;

[@bipboup7761]

@@imnotenglish9838 France has territoires in both America :)

[@EdgeyStyle]

Well France play the north america cup with their local team

[@jfrancobelge]

Lots of stereotypes in this very superficial video. And what about that silly comment about the exposure to toxoplasma gondii? France is a developed country with accurate food safety controls.

[@arthurdelarue3093]

Ok détends toi

[@jungbolosse3034]

Je l'ai eue la toxoplasmose.

[@DavidDiFrancesco-hy1zc]

pete un coup mec on dirait qu'y vient d'insulter ta mere

[@lisamartin9831]

Let's be real : eating that many red meat, we were bound to have consequences, even if the food safety controls are accurate. I think the quantity is the problem here, not the quality of the products we consume.

[@justg4272]

Par contre énormément de gens on la toxo en France, on fait même des tests systématiques aux femmes enceintes pour savoir ce qu’elles ont le droit de manger. C’est pas grave du tout dans l’immense majorité des cas, et une grande partie des français l’ont depuis leur naissance

[@stampator]

6:46 Glad you came to France during a World Cup, it might be the only times we're united (Unfortunately, we lost in Finals this year, against Italy...)

[@noegrossiord1720]

it was the européan championship not the world cup

[@stampator]

@@noegrossiord1720 he talked about his 2006 trip to France, which was a World Cup year, with Zidane's famous head-butt on Materazzi ;)

[@zefyrisd69]

9:50 yes you're correct, snails aren't insects, that's a mistake on their part.

[@judicaelmayne9274]

but elephants are masupials !

[@judithbreaud2291]

France is in the EU and IS one of the country that "founded" it (like before EU there was several steps like European community of Carbon with 6 country i think and it included France Germany and several others (can't name them rn))

[@DECOCCE]

Coal not carbon 😂 and steel

[@judithbreaud2291]

@@DECOCCE yeah sorry (i'm french btw coal is charbon in french so it gets messed up in my head)

[@lasalle1042]

16:32 that's false we french learn 2+ languages since highschool

[@thomasalegredelasoujeole9998]

We’re taught 2+ languages. But we’re generally pretty crap at them ^^

[@lasalle1042]

@@thomasalegredelasoujeole9998 Its getting better :p

[@thomasalegredelasoujeole9998]

@@lasalle1042 thanks Netflix ;)

[@DavidDiFrancesco-hy1zc]

usually people can speak english quite well (talking about today students) but a lot less can speak spanish or german(especially german)

[@lasalle1042]

@@DavidDiFrancesco-hy1zc We have english as the Primary language and we can choose between spanish and german

[@RawenWarCrow]

As much as I'd love that Jacques Brel would have been French, he was a proud Belgian, and a fantastic song-writer and singer... When you think about it, a lot of the greatest french speaking singers are or were Belgian

[@tsushima9535]

Ca va les chevilles ?

[@jacobiniste]

"a lot" ye ye i trust you

[@wertyuiopasd6281]

That's why he lived in France most of his life.

[@tomjoss]

For the respect of our neighbours and of music, I want to correct the video saying Jacques Brel is Belgian, not french !

[@tonywilkinson6895]

Me and my brother live in England and France ,on balance,France wins.🤫

[@dyastylianou8493]

You should go and live there then!

[@ryanbrimson8238]

I’m half french half English lol my home is the channel

[@thomasalegredelasoujeole9998]

@@ryanbrimson8238 can’t be wetter than a London winter ^^

[@ryanbrimson8238]

@@thomasalegredelasoujeole9998 oh yea of course not at all. Although living in a sizeable mass of water can get you feeling a bit drippy too

[@thomasalegredelasoujeole9998]

@@ryanbrimson8238 was practicing my iconic English understatement

[@fabienlouvel5536]

20:44 I would add that France gave the US constitution that we took from Corsica (Pascal Paoli).

[@noat123]

Oh sh*t, he knew about the statue

[@prouvencau6343]

During a naval battle against England english's captain : "you french fight for money, and we english fight for honour !" french's captain : "we fight for what we lack !"

[@judicaelmayne9274]

dialogue in Pirate, from Roman polanski

[@judicaelmayne9274]

and this is between the french "mouse" la grenouille, and the captain red.

[@prouvencau6343]

@@judicaelmayne9274 not "from" Polanski, from History. May he go to hell

[@mijazukant]

dude, I am French, living half in Switzerland and half in Germany with my German wife, and your comment about the statue being a Trojan horse that could potentially put the flag on the WH was hilarious, thanks for the laugh 😂😂😂

[@mxlexrd]

I don't know why he said the Nobel peace prize, those people he mentioned won the proper Nobel prizes.

[@BlackHawk2b]

I thank your salute to the Emperor VIVE L'EMPEREUR !!!!!!

[@hape3862]

1:56 This is the Palace of Justice in Munich, Germany, and it isn't even in Baroque but Neo-baroque stile. 7:06 Yes, Mainland France (543.940 km², not 643.000!) is over 1 ½ the size of Germany, together with its overseas territories even 663.336 km². 9:38 Entomophagy indeed means eating insects, but snails aren't insects of course, so he talks BS.

[@guifire9747]

I think it's the same for vineyard, he describes Bordeaux are the biggest one in the world, while i'm pretty sure Languedoc-Roussillon have the biggest vineyard, not Bordeaux and Jacques Brel being from Belgium, not French Then again, just small mistakes, the video is still interesting

[@RhOd5]

Les statistiques ethniques sont interdites en France, donc ce ne sont que des estimations dans la vidéo.

[@virgilevanlaere3950]

i am french ans i would like to add that french people love to grumble about their country and unfortunatly more and more people say they don't like france and doesn't realize it's one of the greathest country.

[@xgentis]

Jacque Brel isn't french he was from Belgium.

[@Leebpascal1]

6:19 We lost in final against Italy at the WC 2006. Maybe you're talking about victories against Spain, Brazil or Portugal.

[@TomTom-vu1hv]

Merci pour ta vidéo !

[@Girepa54]

Oh oh, ce n'est pas parce qu'on parle français, qu'on est français. Tu peux être belge (Jacques Brel) québécois, luxembourgeois... c'est être francophone ! En France, nous avons la richesse de nos langues régionales tels que le breton, l'alsacien, etc. qui peuvent être choisies lors du baccalauréat. Elles font partie de notre patrimoine.

[@curuvar72]

I recommend you The napoleonic wars oversimplified, it is very interesting

[@Fuyu_ImpactTV]

I have to say something that is very dear to my heart, because French people are very much mistaken with people who make no effort with other languages, and that's completely wrong. Why our english is so poor (and still, it was worse before) is because we have poor education system. Teachers aren't paid as much as they should according to the amount of work they have and that doesn't help. We work 4 days 1/2 a week, from 8am to 5pm with 1 or 2 hours of break at noon (depends on where you are). In some middle/high schools, we work from 7 am until 6pm. On wednesday we work from 8 am to noon. We do have a lot of vacation, but that doesn't repair the damage caused by the amount of daily work. Because add to the 7-9 hours at school including 7 hours of work, around 1 to 3 hours of work each evening? Of course students are going to get bored or even more. And that's the same for teachers. Also we start english classes very late, at ~11 yo (not our choice but the government's), and our classes have poor content, we often do the same things every year. A lot of french people actually try to learn a language on their own but it can be really difficult and cost a lot. But a lot also lost courage to learn because not only there are the difficulty and high cost, but there also is the fact that they remember how much they struggled at school and here you have people who can't speak another language than their own. But french people are usually very open to other languages, and either sad not being able to learn one or happy when they know they will be able to. Note that we struggle at our own language, this doesn't help at all. Btw french people are very open to other countries and cultures in general (there are exceptions of course) and usually have a good knowledge of geography and even world history, even with history classes being centered on french history because there is a LOT to cover (as you know), like, we can't even cover our whole history in school if we don't take history classes after high school (even with that it's difficult to cover it all).

[@heicho5822]

About the statue of liberty... How did ya know !! Auguste Bartholdi avait pourtant bien caché tout les mécanismes

[@tixien]

Have a thought for all the French men and women who’ve been living in there for 250 years, waiting for the signal… Ran out of wine and cheese a while ago, show some empathy:-)

[@Jerostax]

You're right, snail isn't an insect, but still yummy :)

[@Pakal77]

with butter, garlic, salt and some herbs hummmmm, so delicious !

[@ChachouLP]

I looooove it :)

[@Julius69003]

Video is really nice, i'll add a small correction also: Jacques Brel is not french (unfortunately for us french people, because he is one of the greatest) He is Belgian

[@xschamarande8470]

NO, it's not raw meat that gives French people a bad temper, it's impolite tourists!! You will be welcomed if you follow a simple rule of communication in France: learn courtesy words like "Bonjour", "excusez-moi", "s'il vous plait", "merci" even with a lovely accent, it's better

[@mattybrunolucaszeneresalas9072]

16:47 no that’s not right. It’s just that the English language is so spoiled. It doesn’t really have a lot of foreign words. So like France and Quebec try to make more purely French words to replace borrowings from other languages. It has nothing to do with learning other languages, it has to do with how they speak their native language. Like why should Weeknd be borrowed when a simple translation is adequate

[@alexr5624]

6 - 7 hours works a day? no lol more than that x) it's ~43,1 hours a week and 8,6hours a day in France based on 2020 audit. But otherwise it's accurate ^^ oh and be careful with the Iron Lady '-' u saw in Rick and Morty what will happen if you activate the statue xDDDDDD

[@thi6563]

Mon pays est vraiment le meilleur 🇨🇵💙🤍❤

[@cray_draws]

Quick random correction not many people care about : Jacques Brel was not French but Belgian. Since Belgium speaks french and he spent a big part of his career in France, it is easy to forget but I wouldn't want to steal the merit of our neighbors

[@cykablyat6531]

According to World Economic Forum (2018 11 france-is-most-food-sustainable-country-u-s-and-u-k-faltering) *"France is the world's most food sustainable country"* "France's aggressive measures to tackle food waste, promote healthy lifestyles and adopt eco-farming techniques helped it top a ranking of nations, published on Tuesday, which assesses their food sustainability. The Netherlands, Canada, Finland and Japan rounded out the top fives, in an index by the Economist Intelligence Unit.. *The US and Britain failed to make the top 20 of 67 nations that were graded on food waste, sustainable agriculture, and health and nutrition.* "France has been in the vanguard of policies and measures to reduce such losses," said Martin Koehring, the index's author.."

[@Biditchoun]

On the other hand the farmers are treated like litteral shit, so eh. Switzerland found a great system for that, that could be readjusted to France, but the politics want competitiveness at all costs.

[@zaido2823]

The problem is that France is... actually not a country where we don't waste food. Half of the food is wasted. We're on the way to bring down the wastes, but we're just on the way. Moreover, most part of the agriculture is intensive and monocultural, and there are still crops growed only to feed the animals that are shutted in. Even if some brands promote "bio" products everywhere, this is not a significant progress to make our agricultural system sustainable and ecological.

[@KyrilPG]

@@zaido2823 Wow, a couple excessive affirmations here : Half the food isn't wasted, that's not even the proportion in USA. Also it depends on the way you count. If you count anything even remotely edible and not eaten as wasted food, then yes you might get to 50% or more. But not everything edible is actually considered food, if you start to take into account stuff like carrot leaves and other food byproducts, not a single country would be capable of not wasting "food" (with quotes the size of Siberia). It's better to use these byproducts as biofuel producing matter than actual food. There's still way too much food wasted in France but far less than in USA or most of comparable top tier developed countries. France is strongly improving on the subject and the road ahead is still lengthy but the country's actively moving toward the right direction, at quite a fast pace. French agriculture is mainly monocultural yes, but not that intensive. The most intensive cultures in France are barely mildly intensive compared to US, Canada or Brazil standards. That's actually a problem : a way more intensive agriculture would help struggling French farmers but as much economically sustainable it is, it's horrifyingly unsustainable environmentally speaking. It's also not good quality wise, most of the time. GMO cultures are extremely limited in France as most are not allowed, but in fact the "blanket ban" tends to be somewhat counterproductive on some aspects (a few select GMO's could actually be beneficial, especially if the country and EU want to ban many of the controversial pesticides). France has the same issues as all other top developed countries : they have a consumer oriented mass consumption market (with massive price-crushing mass retailers) that drives low prices and huge volumes. Hence, people are used to pay low prices for average food. Most of them would refuse to pay or couldn't afford the fair price for quality and locally grown food. Especially with nowadays budget for nutrition, as a sensibly lower fraction of the monthly budget is allocated to food than a few generations ago. So how can it work ? The EU spends billions in subsidies to barely maintain loads of farmers afloat, the same unhappy farmers that struggle month to month to make ends meet. There must be a major change at the industrial, commercial and consumer levels : reducing waste is a good thing, recycling the inevitable waste in compost and biofuel too. Allowing that 20% of some produced but unprocessed foods to be directed towards biofuel / biogas production would be quite an easy and quick partial solution to food waste. Greatly reducing meat consumption and repurposing non-human cultures to human cultures would also be great. But sadly there's a strange belief that you need to eat meat at every meal to be healthy. Most consumers would rather eat dirt cheap low quality meat at every meal than 10 times less but greater quality products (or not at all). So they poison themselves and the planet just to satisfy an absurd belief. Also, eating a lot of meat is a social marker of apparent wealth, the poorer they are the more they eat meat, despite the ultra low quality and health issue. As if not eating meat would set their relative poverty in stone. Paradoxically, the wealthier portions of the population in the richest countries, especially in France, tend to eat far less meat products than the rest of the population. And usually vegetarians and vegans tend to be wealthier and more educated than the average population. Anyway, the fair price issue will have to be addressed one way or another, very soon. Consumers can't criticize imports and intensive cultures while requiring high volumes at dirt cheap low prices and wanting happy farmers at the same time. This simply isn't possible ! There's a real issue here : the low-cost crass products. We're in the 21st century, most top developed countries haven't been at war (homeland war) for 75+ years and most of their populations haven't experienced shortages nor famines. And, yet they behave as if overwhelming abundance is still needed for reassurance. As if they needed to stock their fridge and plates with more that they can eat. They also want to have access to "premium" products regardless of their actual financial means. That creates absurd situations, particularly in France, where there are tons of dirt cheap horribly produced "foie gras" (French paté for Americans), tons of heavy metal saturated and artificially colored smoked salmon (raised in overpopulated pools and riddled birth defects), pseudo caviar, piles of boxes of sugar based, palm oil saturated and unethically grown, pesticides filled cocoa derived low-cost "chocolates" and other products for holiday meals and festivities. Many average French would rather eat a bunch of shitty pseudo premium products they could almost afford in bulk than selecting one premium product in small quantities and good quality. Will they really feel that poor and excluded if they kept it selective and in small quantity ? I was shocked to see hard discount supermarkets advertising premium holiday dishes as every day meals at everyday prices. What's special, premium or extra about it if it's available and widely affordable all year round ? And to add to my shock was the mass of waste on these "special premium" or should I say "extraordinary" dishes in January. Tons of festive dishes were approaching shelf-life end and going to be trashed as shelves have to be overwhelmingly stuffed to attract consumers. Again the mirage of abundance. If a product is supposed to be rare and exceptional and it has become readily available every day of the year at a low price, there's always an issue somewhere. So there's education and behavioral nudge to be implemented for that sort of absurdities to end. The cheap "foie gras" issue is quite bad : not only is it horribly cruel but it is also a massive waste as the force fed birds are mostly discarded once their livers have been collected. Historically the liver was taken and the rest of the meat was consumed in other dishes, allowing the preparation of several exceptional specialties. Nowadays with the industrial cheap "foie gras", at the best of times the rest of the bird might be sent to make pet food or meat spreads (rillettes ?) but most end up in the trash as there's way less demand for byproducts. So the waste issue is multifaceted but one thing is for sure : the consumer is the main culprit here. If he wasn't so socially influenced by outdated pseudo wealth markers, famine inherited behaviors and delusions it would make a real change instantly.

[@zaido2823]

@@KyrilPG I've seen an entire potato field where the potatoes were left into the soil just because of the market prices or something like that. Then, there is the supermarket selection and they throw perished products, and put toxic products in the bin so that nobody can take some food from it. And a lot of french people don't eat food when it is perished or when it looks bad, or even don't eat the rests of their last meal ! Without considering all the people that are obeses and eat more than twice as much food as the food they need. I don't know if it makes half of the food, I've just seen it somewhere in the internet. As you say, the traditions have become industrial and have no more sense. I heard a lot of people saying that stopping eating meat or "foie gras" is a restriction of liberty and is a threat for the traditional french food. But... the current France is all but traditional : can somedy dare to say that highways are traditionnal ? . We've never eaten more meat than nowadays, because still in the middle of the XXth century, the farmer families had only one or two domestic animals they could kill to survive the winter, and hunted not so often.

[@KyrilPG]

@@zaido2823 The potato crops are a good case of redirecting harvest to biofuel production : if it's too cheap for food, then use it for fuel ! One major problem is also the financerization and trading of basic foods like cereals. It makes food supply chains, crops and harvests dependent on the stock exchange... What kind of liberty is that to be fed cheap industrial foie gras or fake premium foods ? It's the illusion of eating a special meal for everyone, except it's full of crap, an environmental nightmare, unhealthy and completely absurd. I often am really unnerved by the "traditions" grip in France : a society that doesn't evolve is a dead one. As if current traditions never evolved ? When something is bad, there's no need to keep it "for tradition". About highways : it's more of a German and French "tradition" than an American one as historically highways were built in Germany first (AVUS), Italy second (Milan Lakes Autostrada), France third even tho most of the network came rather late. So you could technically say highways are a French tradition too. Anyway, the main problem still is the massive difference between the actual price and the fair price. As long as there will be cheap low quality food demand, farmers will continue to struggle and a lot of waste will happen. The food waste in other comparable top tier developed countries is much much much worse than in France where it has been made illegal. One interesting change to make : France has a complicated colonial history but several of former French colonies have a long history of entomophagism. Re importing traditional insect based meals from former French colonies could be a great alternative to meat. As insects are the future for protein intake. Incomparably more environmentally sustainable than even the least polluting meats. I've tasted buckwheat (sarrasin) galettes with a hefty proportion of insect flours (farines d'insectes) in the mix, it was delicious, super nutritious and super healthy. Far more than any other animal protein. That's an evolved tradition : one that survives while evolving by mixing cultures. Cultures that were under the French umbrella at some point in history.

[@brassartcedric3812]

Good language french !!! Vive la France 😍😍😍

[@madrooky1398]

Haha renting a car in the UK to make a roadtrip onto continental Europe. Thats certainly a setup for an adventurous ride...

[@gamena_video]

I'm chocked, they dont speak about the most beautiful and important region of France , LA BRETAGNE LE SANG DE LA VEINE

[@lisamartin9831]

Bah ils ont parlés des panneaux et une grande partie des peintres cités sont connus pour leur paysages bretons. Moi je dis ça passe

[@gamena_video]

@@lisamartin9831 oui mais euh hein

[@gamena_video]

@@lisamartin9831 chovinisme

[@Spip-yt6dx]

la semaine de travail normal est de 35 heures au delà ce sont des heures supplémentaires (mieux payer ou la plupart du temps l'entreprise te demande de récupérer ces heure quand ca l'arrange ) en général on travail 8h par jours

[@CEDRICKB]

The only reason I don't eat snails anymore is the way they get grilled alive on a barbecue (in the south of France, Spanish border). It's so good with salt and chilli though.

[@lucasmerlin9173]

France-Italy 2006 is a final we would like to forget XD

[@ghostB222B]

I am French in the region of Franche-Comté (edge Switzerland) and it is quite interesting to see Americans looking at the history of France. We love you America! And thank you never enough for your help in the past till today !👋🙏🇫🇷🇺🇸

[@davidlacoste]

9:50 Where this number comes from. The majority of us never eat snails.

[@stephanejore8028]

Yes insect is all kind a living being that have an exosqueleton. But there are sub category

[@BlueDusk95]

Snails are akin to seafood and they're delicious cooked in garlic butter. Frog legs are more a Southern delicacy, also fried with batter, garlic and parsley, but in olive oil.

[@olivierdk2]

11:41 not to mention the clandestine gold miners from guiana and brazil who are sought/hunted by the gendarmerie and especially the legion as an integral part of their training

[@bouletcie]

Snails are "gastropods", not insects

[@piotrcieplucha4405]

Could you please do Poland, I mean it's just France but sideways and without the blue. Thanks in advance!

[@heinedietiker4943]

80 Million tourists every year prove how beautyful France is.

[@dyastylianou8493]

The word either doesn't exist or is too cumbersome and several words are needed for one of our English words. Ironically Modern day English has kept a lot of elegant French whereas French has absorbed English words like to book, to hack, to ghost. The list goes on and on lol. Curiously many other European Languages have done the same.

[@EnzoRossi-g4v]

Je suis français j'ai jamais entendu ces mots là sortir de la bouche d'un français🤔 les mots que tu cites ne sont jamais utilisée

[@titouangrislain3618]

@@EnzoRossi-g4v "être overbooké" "se faire hacker" "se faire gohster" sont trois expressions qui reprennent ces mots et qui sont fréquemment utilisées

[@quoniam426]

The look of Paris is explanable because Napoléon III (Nap's nephew) during the Second Empire period transformed Paris to give the city the look and layout it has today, the whole project was overseen by Baron George Eugène Haussemann and it gave Paris its imposing Imperial look with standardized architecture, big perspectives, green spaces and parks, in a very theatrical stage play of sorts. The template was in fact Versailles in many aspects. Template that inspired British colonists and later Americans into building Washington DC for example.

[@guillaumegrosjean6327]

Very good video. 👍🏻

[@neilmurray7330]

Jaques Brel was Belgian.

[@tibsky1396]

It's true, the confusion was made because he was French-speaking.

[@dyastylianou8493]

Absolutely correct Neil. The French adopted him curiously as they did Lara Fabian who is also Belgian but is Flemish-speaking. Her mother tongue is Italian but she sings predominantly in French. She is now a Canadian citizen so she is adopted by the Canadians lol. Confused you will be. Sounds like an episode of Soap lol.

[@thomasalegredelasoujeole9998]

What’s Belgium ? 😬

[@kayd6572]

Shh dont say anything. We stole them

[@robertwilloughby8050]

Ah yes, and Jonny Halliday too - born Jean DeSmet.

[@jerzinho92]

World is so beautifull! As french i agree with most of what is said. Even if its full of "clichés". Maybe it s weak regarding population which is probably more mixed. Its also important to distinguish large cities and country side, and north from south. Regionalism are really sensitive, but most of people feel french first. Regarding Québec... we dont feel so close. We see them more as kind of American who speak old french :) Regarding UK, for sure, it has bien historical ennemy. But when you go into the detail, you discover that it was mainly an incredible family business...vive la France! 😄🇨🇵

[@JulesWawrzyniak]

Hi from France brother ! 🇫🇷🙌🏼

[@thegallyfreyanfujoshi3389]

I'm French. I hate snails, horse and rabbits, and frogs is kind of meh. That's not a common meal to eat here. We usually eat more common things like beef or pork.

[@Pakal77]

So, you don't represent all the french. We are all different.

[@wertyuiopasd6281]

Love snails, horse, rabbits, never tasted frog but that may come if I find a good restaurant.

[@thegallyfreyanfujoshi3389]

@@wertyuiopasd6281 that's good!

[@miguelalcaino8926]

The Statue of Liberty being a robot that plan to plant the french flag on the White House would be... GLORIOUS !!! 😂😂😂

[@Poupoulecraft]

what you said at 16:44 is kinda untrue. Nowadays almost all french people learn English and most of them also a 3rd or potentially 4th language. The idea is mostly to keep an integrity to the French language so that it doesn't get used less as it is a part of French identity. But when visiting other countries I would argue that French people wouldn't come up to people speaking French. Which is a thing that can piss off a lot of French people (even among the ones that speak English the best) when Americans just assume that you can barge around France without trying at all. It will always be appreciated when you first try to communicate in French or at the very least say "Bonjour" and acknowledge that you are in France now. If you don't try we most likely won't either.

[@BlueDusk95]

Jacques Brel was Belgian. Like Hergé (creator of the Tintin comics books).

[@pgael7196]

He knows about the Statue of Liberty ! get him !

[@nicolasosheridan7183]

Thx to this video. I remember now that it's a while i didnt eat snails. I like snails but of course we don't eat them nature, we boil them and they become delicious with sauce :p

[@davidlacoste]

7:50 He forgot the Rhine.

[@faycetoofayce7721]

English speaker : don't translate this com please. 20:54 Hé gars, je crois qu'il a découvert notre plan, désactivez le compte à rebours !

[@exquize1660]

10:05 LOL I'm more concerned about the number of people who eat snails in France, I think it's overestimated, many are disgusted by it especially nowadays, it's mostly small localities, it's like frogs I rarely see Frogs sold, not to say never, it's specific to some restaurants.

[@sacharomarain]

Heureux d'être français !

[@Vaareth]

i highly doubt the uncooked food thing, nobody that i know of like uncooked food and we know how unsannitary it is.

[@tixien]

You can have raw meat (mostly beef, but also sometimes veal, or horse) in most brasseries (restaurants), it’s called tartare (like the sauce) and it’s delicious with a raw egg to mix with, and no chef will ever turn you down if you request barely cooked meat. It is exactly because of very high food and hygiene standards that you can allow this.

[@Vaareth]

@@tixien i' know, i'm french, but very few people eat tartare, and even with our high hygiene standard the desease can still happen, personnally i hate undercooked meat

[@juleslouiset58]

I'm french and I can say that in french ther is cities at each corner of field

[@justepourlacheruncom8393]

Working hours by day week could be extremely tricky to analyse in France because they are kine of outdated and working condition could drastically change for a job to another. In public service like train and education yes you have more hours free , no supplemental working and more holliday. But in private company it's absolutely different especially if you have responsability. It's no unheard of skipping the lunchtime even if it's not legal. And we need to speak about supplemental work made at home (not paid obviously). Not many people have an apero time today.

[@aiglestef]

Two small corrections, snails are not insects but gastropods, and for the story of eating raw meat, some eat it before beef with an egg yolk on it, it's called a Steak Tartare, but today hardly anyone eats it. And snails are eaten less and less in France, because in their natural state they hardly exist any more, most of them are imported from Eastern European countries, and then it is a tradition which is a bit (a lot) lost

[@solentbollte6435]

et Gro t'inquiète pas paris c beau sa sen fort aussi. and big don't worry about Paris is beautiful but is strong feeling too.

[@nukeonraccoon3991]

10:34 Reimssssssssss pronounciation killed me

[@dimule971]

Bonjour de France 🇫🇷

[@strangerlucky5753]

Driving in Paris is interesting for sure😅 18:33 "l'heure de l'apéro " don't know what he's talking about we have lunch break that it worker don't just leave to take a nap 22:20 at the begining EU was like 8 country ( and quickly grow in member and purpose ) it was for smooth trading and show a united front to the scary neighbor.. during cold war just in case... ( USSR obviously)

[@wepntech]

Slugs and snails belong to the Phylum Mollusca and are more closely related to octopi than insects

[@HenSt-gz7qj]

snail is... a mollusk (supposedly).

[@mfcq4987]

Yes, snails are mollusks, like mussels, oysters and also like octopus and squid. In truth, snails don't have much taste, it's mostly the seasoning like garlic and parsley butter that makes them pleasant to eat.

[@jeremypintsize7606]

I'm french and I undestand québequois it's just odd for an French French speaker, but it's perfectly intelligible.

[@tomf3150]

Even cajun french is understandable.

[@wertyuiopasd6281]

Québecois is just French. Like literally French lmao. It's just kept an accent from lower classes from the XVIIIth century. And it sounds great to me, I like it.

[@misteurcrayz]

I came because i see that talk about my contry 🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵

[@piepiep2368]

UE is a french creation airbus was french Ariane space program is french, and since napoleon and before france always want apaisement between européens and réunit all européens, européens union it's for all the apogée of french embitions and have a major rôle inside with Germany. After many people didn't think like me and I didn't protect this idée I'm vagabond of the pensée, haha, good video like always

[@emjizone]

9:45 I confirm *snails aren't insects at all* , in not f… way. They are *Mollusks.* By the way, eating insects or worms in France is still considered very or extremely exotic.