Thanks, I was not aware of that.
the white flag stereotype for France comes from 2003
It actually comes (unfairly) from the French army mutinies of 1917 and (also unfairly) from France’s surrender to Hitler in 1940, in addition to their not joining in the fun in Iraq. All of which obscures a prior thousand-year history of kicking the shit out of people.
bzah@discuss.tchncs.de [bot] 5 days ago
shasta@lemm.ee 5 days ago
Yeah I’m glad the other guy replied with more details because my fuzzy memory was telling me that the French surrendering stereotype was around back in the 90s at least, but I was pretty young then and it was hard to remember.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I was just joking, but you forgot to say that this
can be made more specific, they were regularly kicking the shit out of Germans. Germans were the suffering side saying “thanks for punishing me, master” for many years. Not even counting, obviously, Normans kicking the shit out of English.