Where are the French?

MarburgDE · 22時間前

It's about 11:00 am...so I'd say they are doing this

Milith · 19時間前

There aren't many threads in here where I can insult the English these days, so I'm spending more time in other European subs such as /r/paradoxplaza and the one with country balls which cannot be named.

jib60 · 18時間前

i'm on strike, please come back later

butthurt_romanian · 19時間前

Forget the French, where are the Italians?

Sarmale.

Tex-to-speech-device · 20時間前

The Francophone internet is big enough so we don't have to come here, whereas I imagine that you'd be quickly done with the Latvian Internet.

furansujin · 19時間前

France has a pretty solid internet culture so you really don't need to go on reddit or 'murican sites all that often, especially if it's to talk to people who have a lot of misconceptions about France or Europe in general.

SpitersR9K · 22時間前

Hey i am here :)

FIuffyAlpaca · 20時間前

There are dozens of us! Dozens!

Gerrit8500 · 22時間前

There are definitely French people here, often they have flairs of their regions rather than just the French flag.

Sensitive_nob · 20時間前

swarming

They are always the same 3-5 names for every country flair that pops up. The whole subreddit is basicly a discussion between the same ~100 ppl. In every thread, every day.

bec_Haydn · 21時間前

Maybe we're not really interested in what /r/europe has to say recently. Between the usual liberal trend on this forum and the large wave of retarded immigration threads, I visit this srd less often recently.

TheApatheist · 21時間前

Fewer of them know English, the French social internet is also larger than most I suppose.

BananaSplit2 · 16時間前

Well, judging by a lot of comments in this post, I'd say I understand why a lot of us don't often come here.

City_of_Paris · 19時間前

Well, it's saturday. Like the second week after everyone came back from holidays. And it's pouring rain here.

So most likely in bed.

GODZILLAFLAMETHROWER · 16時間前

Big enough french internet communities combined with poor language skills.

Add to that the racist and liberals undertones in /r/europe, which will rub some french the wrong way. Coincidentally, the ones that were open to other cultures enough to overcome our school system and the general sentiment in the 90s to properly learn English.

And finish up with a constant stream of surrender jokes, the supposition that french are arrogant and will talk down to any and all people, that we actually love this stereotype so much that we don't see anything wrong with it. This is primarily an american website with a strong anglo-saxon culture.

It should change quickly though. Any person under 30 in France now has at least conversational English, or feel extremely insecure about not having it. The general sentiment (at least in my social circles, so I may be wrong) is not at all that it is okay to lag behind here. More people are also extremely critical of the politic of favoring french culture on our networks.

Harfangdesneiges · 19時間前

reddit isn't really popular in France. The defaults are mostly American-centered and there are very few French-speaking subreddits. French people aren't really confident with their language skills, partly because of how it's taught in school so it's a barrier to participation in discussion.

We also have pretty good French-speaking web forums (with much larger userbases) so reddit isn't really needed.

Piouw · 18時間前

French here, sup?

tyrroi · 15時間前

France

France

Abravadabra · 10時間前

I guess you mostly see northern europeans and English people here, we have a really different view on the world. More left leaning, especially economically. I often am under the impression of hearing ultra liberal propaganda that you have assimilated as what you call reality and pragmatism.

And also all the French bashing, this is just not funny. Just the same three jokes again and again.

Maybe if a more left leaning r/europe was created there would be more French and some nations would be less present.

And let's not lie to ourselves most of reddit is like that. A group of people all thinking the same thing downvoting everyone who has different views. It does not really promote diversity.

LaptopZombie · 21時間前

You don't remember any posts from our great mod /u/dClauzel?

thePeete · 19時間前

DTC !

Mainstay17 · 14時間前

/u/dClauzel is slowly absorbing all the French redditors to build his power.

blazare · 14時間前

French lurker here. I've been on Reddit since the Great Digg Exodus (multiple accounts).
I rarely comment (expect on /r/eu4 maybe), for fear of being bullied by commenters, but I greatly enjoy reading all the shit everybody is writing.
French are very bad at speaking/writing English, and they don't really care about the English Internet. Moreover, Reddit is completely unknown by most.

erjiin · 18時間前

/r/europe sucks, i personally prefer going in /r/clopClop

savois-faire · 21時間前

What about everyone's favourite mod?

Quoi de honhonhon je m'apelle baguette avec paturain?

Shirinator · 22時間前

There are plenty of French people here.

EHStormcrow · 18時間前

Frenchman reporting in!

Icarusa · 14時間前

My English is just bad enough to read it. Not to write it ;)

Emnight · 14時間前

I unsubscribed from /r/europe because of the recent shift to the far-right positions. It's like a slightly sweetened /r/european .

vincibe · 11時間前

I'm tired of the racist shit.

charlu · 7時間前

I don't read /europe comments any more, it's so right wing, i can't stand it, there's so much to read elsewhere.

Personnellement je ne viens même plus lire les commentaires du forum /europe, je parcours les titres et vais éventuellement lire les articles, mais les commentaires sont tellement réacs, ça m'énerve à chaque fois, et les rares fois où je suis d'accord c'est downvoté à mort, je vous laisse entre vous, j'ai d'autres choses à lire de plus interessant.

Laboe · 19時間前

The sub is swarming with Germans, Poles, Scandinavians, Dutch.

This kind of language is unacceptable. These are human beings we are talking about!

Nerfav · 20時間前

French has its own autonomous French-speaking Internet community (many youtubers, LeGorafi = TheOnion, jeuxvideo.com, ...). It's not really needed to go on English-speaking websites to enjoy Internet services.

So the French you see on reddit are French who actively want to know more about foreigners.

In the end, the more time you spend on English-speaking websites, the more you see that France is living in its own cultural bubble. Truely, the first time I heard about a famous foreign writer, it was Poe, in an american serie, not at school.

Schlagv · 16時間前

As lots of people speak French worldwide, there is little incentive to go to US communities. So you find proportionaly less of them than people from Sweden or Germany, who have a language spoken in only one country.

Foulque_Monsieur · 15時間前

I'm french and it's raining here.

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