Geography Now - France REACTION

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[gegemgeremie]

I am French and I have never heard of snail disease. neither in my family nor in my friends have ever heard of anyone having had this disease

[sspegazus]

Just as a response to your comment. New Caledonia vote to stay in. On an another note, "races" statistics are not official because its ban to collect informations on "races" in France. Moreover, most of the young French are not religious or serious about religion (they doesn't go to church, etc ...) but yes Frenchs are mainly catholic and the culture is 100% catholic. And for the DOM (from DOM TOM), they"re not attached to France. Its litteraly the same as the mainland, they are France. Good video by the way, it was fun. And sorry for my english.

[AJVD]

The French Academy doesn’t really “ban” words. They publish an “official dictionary” and advise the public to use certain French equivalents. But nobody is pointing a gun at us to force us to write a certain way.

[Etiennerabati]

We don't work 6.7 hours a day
Barby was drunk at this moment.. i work 10 hours a day. The minimum is 35h à week. And yes we sleep 8hours because we go to bed at 10 pm....and we dont have time to have a nap in front of the Eiffel tower
..

[cherryblossom]

As a Brit who loves France, I try to go to France and Spain for several winter months regularly. France has more in common with the UK than Spain. Walking Paris is one of the best experiences I have had, because you see, feel and absorb more. Just love France!❤

[zefyrisd]

New Caledonia voted to remain. Twice since that video, in fact, as they had a new opportunity to vote recently.
Some part of that video are wrong btw. Like the insect eating part. Snails aren't even insect anyway ^^". "l'heure de l'apéro" has also nothing to do with napping lol. I don't really know anyone napping either outside of old peoples or children. Some stats clearly seems wrong and others have not really any official sources to back them up (or to contest them either).
Oh, and for stuff like snails and frogs, usually, it's only a very specific set of regions that eat some regularly, while everywhere else they barely eat any (at best once a year for example during end of year festivities), if at all. That's why you'll see French peoples saying almost no one eat snails, depending of where they live. As for horses, I believe that this is a type of meat that is extremely rare in France to be eaten. Probably the rarest by far among the list of meat type he gave, there are other types of meat French eat regularly that weren't mentioned here that are way, way more frequent than that.

[tout_en_funes]

Correction of a French, horse butchers were closed in 1986, and it is a product that is not in all ordinary supermarkets, so to speak, horse meat has practically not been consumed in France for a long time, except perhaps by one or two old farmers here and there. The idea is that consuming horse meat today is akin to consuming a pet (to a lesser extent rabbit - 30% in 10 years), hence a recent controversy about the Findus brand which had marketed meat which was in fact partly horse, a huge controversy for the brand which suffered a big loss of its turnover because many people no longer took this brand and mainly their meat-based products.

"It should be noted that horse meat has already been banned for several years in institutions, schools, hospitals, the army, and that numerous legislative measures aim for a general prohibition.

Frog legs are less fashionable among young people and have hardly been sold since the late 90s. You can still find some frozen packets in supermarkets, it looks like poultry in appearance (white/pink muscle), but it's very small...

However, snails are still consumed (less by young people obviously), mainly at Christmas by some families. These are farmed snails, and there is hardly any difference in their treatment/cleaning compared to whelks. However, I have never seen them on a family table, at uncles' or friends'... in my life so far. It's not a custom, it's probably still widely consumed, but by a certain category of people; however, you will find them on the menu of some brasseries.

As for the mentioned poultry, it is not exclusively manufactured in France. Indeed, it is increasingly rare to find duck breast or foie gras directly from France; they often come from the EU, which also consumes these poultry products. As for cheese, that's true, but I would like to give a nod to the Netherlands, which is also a cheese country, and moreover, tulips, wooden shoes, windmills, bicycles...

As for toxoplasmosis, it is not about simultaneous exposure, but about estimated exposure over a lifetime. Moreover, even though it is a benign disease, women are screened, and according to mandatory serological screening of pregnant women in France, the number of infections acquired during pregnancy is estimated at 2700 per year, so the person in the video probably likes to sensationalize because she talks nonsense about this subject, fortunately.

The black population is indeed over 2%, French figures are manipulated by politics, you will see for yourself when you come. I have no opinion on the matter, but immigration is massive in France, the Muslim religion is very present, almost everything is halal now (free healthcare in France and various financial aids attract).

As for Celtic history, we know it, we and the English, just as Americans must know that they originate from Europe and thus guess... :).

Otherwise, the part about forbidden words made me burst out laughing, sorry, but this sentence is absurd, and it's completely the opposite, indeed, we officially integrate many words into the dictionary, whether it's young people's slang or English sometimes. Moreover, there is no other word to talk about the weekend, there is no synonym, everyone says "finally the weekend", "I am on weekend", "it's the weekend", well, there is no other word, my parents already said it at their birth (they are 70 years old) and I don't think there was another word to define these two days that define the weekend since they existed on the calendar... :D Moreover, a blog has always been a blog (as evidenced by Skyblog, the most popular French site in the early 2000s), and you will see "parking" written on all signs in France as well, in short, misinformation here ^^.

Also for work, it's not 6 or 7 hours but indeed 7 hours, 35 hours being mandatory for a full week's salary. Retirement is at 64.

This is very true for Japan and it has largely been influenced by the world of audiovisual in the 1980s where tons of famous mangas were broadcast on the main channel TF1 (Club Dorothée show) but not only this channel, among the 6 free channels that everyone had. There are also video games and later even TV shows (Takeshi's Castle, Ninja Warrior, Silent Library...).

Japan is still very popular among the new generations, there is also a certain enthusiasm starting for South Korea.

[josephturner]

America has a work ethic. France has a life ethic. That's why the dinner hour is two hours. And includes wine. Vive La France.

[marcapouli]

Snails cooked in hoven with butter garlic and parsley...I could kill for that.

[veewooshi]

We don’t work 6 or 7 hours a day 😂 we work between 8 and 12! Where the hell did he get his info?

[FrenchyGraph]

8:47 Note that bottled cheese does not appear in this image. please stop doing this.. Or we will go on strike so that the subject is addressed in the united nation.. 🤣
15:44 we work to live we don't live to work sorry guys!
16:09 This is also true! we don't hate you, you guys just take it personally for some reason! When I say “I hate you” to a British tourist, he replies “me too and have a good day too” because he has read the European courtesy dictionary! He know we don't bite! 🤣

[josephturner]

Haha. In France, Le Weekend. In Quebec, Le fin de semaine.
In France, Stop (road signs). Quebec (Canada) Arret.
Quebecois tv programmes in France are subtitled.
That's like, Cheers being subtitled in the UK.😂
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[TonyVallad]

Whenever you come visit, if you have time, I highly recommend visiting the "Mont Saint Michel" which is the amazing "island" you see in the beginning of the video. Probably the most beautiful man-made structure we have here.
It's located a few hours by car from Paris.

[laurine____]

That man was wrong about multiple things but one thing wasent said before : we dont care about religion here. We can even trash on it all we want. " la laicité" is born here anyways. Ppl wont even really call themself catholics

[roudkaross]

Fun fact on the Toxoplasma gondii, it's believed that at least a third of all humans on earth have it.

[Etiennerabati]

Hi guys. First of all you look so friendly. I am french and some of the things in this vidéo is 😁. No we do not work 6 or 7 hours a day...000, 1 %eat horse, 1% eat snails, and we try to speak english as all others european countries.

[josephturner]

Missed one fact. Bread must be available daily in all Communes* everyday except Christmas day. By law. Which is why my local Aldi had to build an instore bakery.
*Parish/smallest local authority.

[Shornaal]

Two days in France... that's enough to see maybe most of the Louvre museum, if you don't linger too much. ^^

[AlbandAquino]

Since most of our produce don't have garbage preservatives, we need to go get groceries a little more often. A fresh baguette or "tradition" is just delicious. It's funny, at least to me who married an American woman, to see other Americans react to "France".
Kudos from Bordeaux !

P.S.: Yes, we do value our work / life balance. Take it the way you want, but that's not making French people less productive than any other. Quite often when we're going on our lunch break, it's a 1h30 break. Part because we enjoy having some time off work, but also part it's team building. And YES, sleep is paramount. You can't do good/efficient work if you're chronically exhausted.

[MrBlakemortimer]

Jacques Brel, is not french, from Belgium...