Edit: I know there is a lot of typos/mistakes... too lazy to correct them

French person talking, i think the hate for french people is very occidental. Japanese for example loves the french culture and they have a lot of restaurants/stores trying to serve french food or clothes with french words on them adapted to japanese standards.

For the hate i think it has multiple factors:

For america it is the Marechal Petain surrendering to the nazis during ww2, and our refusal to invade irak. Making us "surrender monkeys", which is very funny when you look at france war history.

For england: it is the victory of the hundred years war and the countless other wars we had with them.

Germany has always been our ennemy since the fall of the roman empire.

For Africa and particularly algeria and congo: it is the severe repression against insurgencies in our colonies, government manipulation, our implication in salvery, robbery of natural ressources and cultural assets, and forced conversion to christianity/"good maners" of indigenous populations, all leading to the rise of multiple ultra radicalized groups and terrorism.

So for every country we are either the bastards who sold themselves to the nazis or the bloodthirsty war criminals who are here only to kill, rape, and steal.

Added the fact that Paris is one of the most visited cities in the world making it also one of france's rudest and unwelcoming cities for tourists, And the cultural differences we have with english speaking countries in terms of politeness/expected behaviour, and in the way we are choosing friends/partners. Makes us the perfect hate target.

But i think if you visit France and go to more remote places and genuinely try to interract with people/try to speak french (altough we will immediatly switch to english, we like when you try and it is seen as a sign of respect) you can find very warm welcoming people. Just dont expect to become BFF immediatly or feeling as part of the family, it does not work like that, and it will be very akward for everyone.

Anti-French sentiment is new to USA from the 20th century, portraying the French as weak and needing rescue was a popular approach for those against war in Europe.

Historically France has been one of the best of friends to the USA.

Hating the French has typically been a European thing (and very English) because of the whole France dominating Europe time and again over the millennia.

There are historical anti-French sentiments, but I honestly don't think this is related to them much. I think it's just a meme gen Z decided to run with because they thought it was funny. Like the birds aren't real thing.

Dates from when France refused to be complicit in invading Iraq in 2003. A big anti-french movement was pushed by American conservatives then, and it just became an internet thing afterwards.

However the French are not really liked outside due to French tourists being arrogant and always saying things (usually food) are better in France.

This is a Canadian thing, Quebequois are stereotyped as being incredibly rude and entitled as a general rule, and are constantly trying to force the rest of Canada to adopt their heritage/culture. The dislike of quebequois outside of Quebec kind of merged with Quebec's hatred of French (for not being French enough) and now all of Canada enjoys a good "French are terrible people" meme.

As a filthy American, it's just because of propaganda on this side of the pond. Union busters successfully portrayed the French as lazy and entitled because of all the strikes/protests over workers' rights. Gasp! Oh the horror!

That's genuinely it. And the fact that Americans are fucking stupid and eat that shit up, because our dumbass society romanticizes "working hard" and "pulling yourself up by your bootstraps." My father-in-law just the other day made a joke about the French being lazy after I said something along the lines of "we could learn a thing or two from the French on how to protest."

Idiots.

I have never really seen much of hate. The only things I have seen my entire life is the stereotype that french people are rude and bitter. I have no clue how true it is since ive never traveled or seen a ton of french people. The closest would be people from Canada and they are all very nice. I think the biggest example I have seen is they hate US tourists and treat them with a cold shoulder. Considering how rude and entitled a lot of US tourists can be I probably don't blame them if it is true.

Americans do it because "cheese eating surrender monkey" is funny, and acknowledging the sacrifice and fierceness of the French and how we've relied on them in nearly every conflict is not funny. Therefore Americans do the latter a hell of a lot less than the former.

English surely? The French are ours to fight. We had to fight Hitler when he had a go at them.

Seems to me to have always been a meme, even before the internet. I suspect it's some amount of shit-talking going to an extreme, propaganda that has long just turned into an incomprehensible slush, or it's adopted from other countries' hate of france being treated as self-explanatory and just becoming a given.

Very rarely is the hate for france real, it's pretty much just a joke anytime it's been used while I've been in earshot.

The joke template is: Anyone: *says something disparaging about the french that is either very vague or about them being snobbish or quick to surrender*

Everyone else: *agrees without question or elaboration.*

I'm sure some portion of the US genuinely does view the French in a bad light, but I've yet to meet them.