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Getting in touch with your roots
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This looks like a great way to troll communities. Might do this in the France sub
Tbh, I would be much more triggered by the fact that you gave your DNA to a private company for fun, than any "oui oui baguette" jokes
Can lean into that too
Now I kinda want to know which country communities would react most positively and negatively to such a post.
UK here so we get multiple choices but I think all of them would laugh at you. Northern Irish you should probably be careful with.
Well trolling UK communities is too easy so it would be like cheating
Omg I love England! I went last year and stayed in Edinburgh for a week! Going back to #GB next year, this time going to Belfast!
Mine would be "I'm from Argentina but I found out I'm 10% British! 🤗 This means the Falklands can be BOTH British and Argentinian amd everybody wins!!! Or should I call them the Falkinas 😆"
Sit back and wait for the firing squad
I'm French, ain't no way a french community doesn't fall for it, this might be the easiest one to troll.
Ehhh qubecois are even easier to trigger than the french
Terminally online Québecois will fucking light their keyboards on fire with friction alone. Absolutely wild over here.
IRL I love the energy though: government proposed a modest increase to tuition so over 100k people protested for days.
Compared to anglo Canadians who just take whatever they get, I appreciate the Québecois.
IDK try pointing out to a French person "I know nothing about France but why should that matter after all it is just France. It's not an important place like America or The UK" they love it.
When I came to france, there were regular errors about my capital, brands etc from my home country (Sweden), which is okay, especially in the pre Internet times. But there were these arrogant people brushing it off like it doesn't matter because it's just some small country or whatever. My live with them was "no problem mate, we all do these kind if errors, like what's the capital of France, Berlin, Paris, Madrid? Who cares!?"
That worked surprisingly well, I'm just baffled no one had a brain aneurysm. Some were so angry.
I remember from my pub roaming days in paris, stumbling upon a depressed US guy next to the opera. He told me that he had recently been promoted by his firm in bumfuck in some flyover state and that it was his first time out of the US.
And for some reason he thought everyone would be in awe of an actual US guy. Someone who actually had a car and electricity! But instead, nobody gave a fuck. So there he was, drowning his illusions in a pint.
By far my most surreal meeting in a bar.
Tell a qubecois they're not real french and it gets hilarious. Took french lessons as an adult and our teacher was from quebec, it got weiiird. At least the flemish have their own thing and don't give a shit.
Québécois here. I have never understood when people tell me I am not French. I don't understand what you're trying to say.
Of course we're not French, we haven't been for centuries! We share a language and an ancestry.
I think most Québécois would agree with me that your statement is just confusing. You're just stating something like we're not aware of it.
I used to sell wine in retail and for the most part only at nationally recognized stores. My favorite thing to do with French people is talk all about the culture that didn't invent wines but perfected them as I brought them over to the Italian sections
you magnificent bastard.
Quebecois are too close to the US, you guys know what it's like. So I give you that it must be a more common thing to happen to you.
But we on the other hand would never even consider origins like an American.
Not only that but a lot of us hate Americans, and most of us have some chauvinism.
Hon hon hon fellow baguette connoisseurs!
I brew my own alcohol, the stuff I call wine would probably offend the French.
Emily in Paris was my favourite show so it makes sense!
Defarge: We are so poor! We don't even have a language! Just a stupid accent!
Peasant: She's right. She's right. We all sound like Maurice Chevalier. Honh, honh, honh!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VnjqSZ7mBQ