Do the English feel culturally closer to the French or the Germans?
>>217704981All of them will be African in 2100 so they will be in a way all brothers.
Can you explain why french people are mainly assholes
They look down on both (undeservedly) and idolize the Americans instead (also undeservedly), but will rarely admit it openly
>>217704981To us. They speak a version of Old Dutch
>>217704981From the outside looking in they seem way more similar to French than German.
>>217705013>>217705066>burger flag>immediately mention black people>immediately seethe about the frenchman you really are just stereotypes
>>217705113they're afraid of admitting it
>>217704981Germanic is not the same as Germans. Britain was by far more influenced by Rome, then France and then Normans/Vikings.
>>217705113We're literally latin and they're germanic, we got nothing in common
>>217704981Luv sosijLuv beerLuv protestantism
>>217705147See you're a french asshole, could you explain why you are like that
>>217705159>Britain was by far more influenced by RomeModern english culture comes from the english and saxon settlers, not from the britons. The britons themselves weren't even that much romanized as opposed to other provinces, and most people were still identifying as britons and spoke brittonic
>>217705187british nobles and upper class had long been educated in french.
>>217705159Roman culture died in the 5th century, we've been Anglo-Saxon every since unless you're part of the upper classes.
>>217705106This, also we're both spiritual jews who will sell their countrymen for profit
>>217705187They got conquered by Rome too bro lolYall have the same Daddy
>>217705241and to us every american is arrogant, proudly ignorant and mindlessly patriotic.could you explain why you are like that
>>217704981We're a culture unique to Europe that doesn't really closely resemble anyone else. The French and the Germans are very culturally related to one another, but Britain stands alone.
>>217704981We are spiritually the same nation
>>217705260yeah wow, like everyone in europe>>217705305this is irrelevant when modern english culture has nothing to do with the people that came before them. with this logic you might as well say egyptians are hellenic and not arabic.anything latin you can find in england comes from the normans and angevins
>>217705241KEK
>>217704981I suppose the average working Anglo is probably slightly more alike the average Frenchman than the average German in a cultural sense, aside from the cultural preference for beer over wine.
>>217705306Our country rules and is the baseline of normalcy worldwide so we have a good reason to be smug, everyone that goes to france has a bad experience with french people to the point the japanese even have a word that means "disappointed by france" with kanji and everything
>>217705306Because everyone uses our dollar, military, and universities. Plus, everyone watches our movies and porn. When was the last time you fapped to an American? BE HONEST.
>>217705423everybody drinks beer everywhere, we drink beer more often than wine
>>217705473>>217705474mad how you're not even denying it
>>217705248Never said anything about Britons, after Rome fell the British empire was heavily influenced by Rome, even now most countries follow roman administrative and legal rule. >>217705265>unless you're part of the upper classes.Upper classes dictate the rules and how the country behaves. Just take a look at the modern English vocabulary, most of it comes from latin, despite English not being a latin language.
>>217705479you're winelets, you will never be beerlets. deal with it!
>>217704981There's far more British-French interaction historically than British-German interaction. Of course, much of the genetic stock in GB is from Germans and Danes but you can say that Germanic Franks contributed a lot of the French genetics as well.Looking at more recent history, which I think is most important for talking about the culture of today, Britain and France had a very similar colonial experience, both expanding and collapsing at the same points and being similarly vital to the nation. Britain and France also have an interestingly similar history with regard to industrial action over the 20th century.
>>217704981>Monarchs are descended from William the Conqueror >King of England is still called the Duke of Normandy >Over a quarter of our vocabulary is Old French >The Royal blazon is still in French (dates back to Richard cœur de lion, a Plantagenet King that didn’t speak a lick of English)You tell me
>>217704981They're more similar to us, but interact more with frenchies
>>217704981England has been a French colony for the last 1,000 years, odc they are closer to French than to the Germans.
>>217704981just wanted to say that I love my rosbif bros
>>217705537>after Rome fell the British empire was heavily influenced by Romewhat the FUCK am i reading here
>>217705641Ty Spain.
>>217705306Not him, but were a huge country all of us have been indoctrinated to believe that America is the best country in the world and everyone envies our freedom. This mentality, combined with the fact that few of us travel internationally and are actually aware of geography/outside cultures, results in your average amerishart
>>217705589>you can say that Germanic Franks contributed a lot of the French genetics as well.no? the franks literally had laws against miscegenation. the french for the most part descend from the natives
>>217705625All of these points are more or less irrelevant.>>Monarchs are descended from William the ConquerorThey're also descended from Anglo-Saxon, German, and Dutch royal lines. In fact during WW1 the royal family changed their names to Windsor from Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.>>Over a quarter of our vocabulary is Old French A plurality of it is Germanic in origin.
>>217705665This makes me think of those French revolutionaries that thought Britain was gonna join their side because they too were enlightened king-beheaders and were heartbroken to find out the English want to kill them.
>>217705741>no? the franks literally had laws against miscegenation. the french for the most part descend from the nativesSo what, you're saying that the Franks simply vanished at some point between establishing the Merovingian Kingdom and modern France
>>217705689The remnants, the institution, its culture. It doesn't have to be at its peak to be influential.Greece was way past its peak when it influenced Rome.
>>217705508Why would we deny our greatness? B)
Nigels, we need to UNITE. The Angevins need to rise up again
>>217704981In a genetic sense we're closer to the french, both very celtic despite larping as something else- culturally and linguistically more german, very autistic about things, hatred of art and aesthetics, strong bloodlust, etc
>>217705549How is Spain so low their wine is so fucking tasty? What do Spanish drink beer and tequila instead?
>>217705742The royal family also is fluent in French, a humiliation ritual to pay homage to their frog ancestorsNormans also buck broke Anglos from using cool archaic Germanic words like frith, overmorrow, and ereyesterday. Ffs, we even call dried grapes raisins
>>217705773>This makes me think of those French revolutionaries that thought Britain was gonna join their side because they too were enlightened king-beheaders and were heartbroken to find out the English want to kill them.Nonsense. The royals had been invited back to general applause, the populace having decided that having Puritan government was not particularly well advised. The execution of the king was officially condemned and twelve remaining judges were tried and executed for it.
>>217705782i'm saying your point is irrelevant and the french are not comparable to the english. english people on average have a lot of ancestry from the old english and the saxons. they are both the anglo-saxons, and the britons that integrated into anglo-saxon culture. this mixture created one people with one culture and language.but for us we had a germanic upper class that didn't mingle with the roman mass. they were very few and their genetic contribution to the larger population is basically irrelevant. noblemen were barely 5% of the total population. they never really disappeared into the population, they're just our modern upper class.
>>217705720France is never going to fuck you
>>217705865Dieu et mon droit. Je serai le roi d’Angleterre et l’Occitanie
>>217705720I'm going to fuck you
>>217705773Lol
>>217705273>This, also we're both spiritual jews who will sell their countrymen for profitTruth nuke
>>217705865de Gaulle crying in heaven rn
>>217706048You're not a Nigel though you're a Cletus. Oh well, guess you'll do. I kneel my king
>>217704981germansbaguettes are a crime against humanity
>>217706156He could be American-creole.
I want to thank all of France for gifting us Expedition 33
>>217706264am i the only one that thinks that game looks like shit the art style looks awfulthe story doesnt sound interesting at alland why would i want parry slop in a turn based role playing game
>>217706204damn..
>>217706335stop oppressing anglos in canadayour actions in quebec are so obnoxious that eventually the anger is going to overflow and finally rid this continent of the baguettes
>>217706332i am confused as well. it's not a particularly impressive or remarkable game. i believe this is just because it stands out among all the absolute dogshit we've been served this year and before. this whole hype about this game is pretty ridiculous and i hope people will realize it at one point.
>>217705537>Just take a look at the modern English vocabulary, most of it comes from latin,Ah yes, the average Englishman of course utters words like 'dalliance' and 'purveyor' instead of 'when' 'what' 'him' 'great' and 'it'.
>>217706371>stop oppressing anglos in canadalol? what? you need a history lesson?
>>217706149De Gaulle would rather see all of France die in nuclear hellfire than submit to Perfidious Albion
>>217705625>The monarchy and nobility have French origins therefore English culture is FrenchMong
>>217706149De Gaulle was just tsundere. >>217706376I think the belle époque aesthetics is what sold it to a lot of people. Deep down many are ouiaboos without even realising it
>>217706376though to be fair ive played so many ubisoft titlesso i guess at least france produced one decent thing when they werent jacking off over something stupid >>217706406no i think YOU need a history lessonhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZnV0Fvb2XI
>>217706378I've said dalliance this week already and I'm going to do it again.
>>217706448belle epoque footage is probably the most radicalising force on the planet
>>217706534>no indian restaurants>no muslim banlieuesIt was shit, chud.
>>217706378>Bongs don’t say purveyor or dalliance like we do in America England has fallen
>>217706448I don’t think my PC could run Expedition 33, so I’ll have to content myself with Rayman 2 for the Dreamcast
>>217704981French, unfortunately.
>>217706378>just, use, because, animal, money, blame, wallYou use a ton of latin words you don't even realise. Even those from middle English, were taken from French which were taken from latin.
>>217704981To Russians, obviously.
>>217706796Alright lad thanks for telling me about my homeland
>>217706782>unfortunatelysorry lad
>>217706796>French which were taken from latin.Langue d'oc/oïl were/are living latin languages. You should not confuse words from romance (vulgar latin) languages and real loan words taken from ecclesiastical/scientific latin (classical latin).English has both, and French too has latin loans.
>>217706834LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING ABOUT YOUR PEOPLE, BOY~
>>217706834I didn't want to sound pedantic, but it's the truth. English rulers were massive Romanboos.>>217706878It's pretty much the same since, all latin influenced languages were vulgar latin. That's what influence means, not a 1:1 copy.
>>217705938Wine is both reserved for very special celebrations (where beer is also drank a lot, to note), and negatively viewed as the go-to beverage for drunks (wine smashes you harder and faster than beer)
>>217705625>Monarchs are descended from William the ConquerorAs well as Alfred the Great, Ine of Wessex and, indeed, Woden himself.Plus, Franks and Normans were originally no less Germanic than Angles and Saxons, albeit latterly mixed with degenerate c*Lts and r*Mans and other such creatures.>King of England is still called the Duke of NormandyOnly within the Norman territories that his ancestors conquered.>Over a quarter of our vocabulary is Old FrenchThe French language was pretty much invented in England, but the English language was historically recognised as 'Teutonic' like German. At the Council of Constance in the early 15th century, the French delegation rejected the English claim to nationhood by insisting that they be subsumed under the German one.>The Royal blazon is still in French (dates back to Richard cœur de lion, a Plantagenet King that didn’t speak a lick of English)The motto of the Prince of Wales is German. What though?The claim that Richard spoke no English is based on his writing French and Occitan poetry, but makes little sense considering his father and brother knew English, and that his nephew was appointed 'King of the Romans' specifically on account of his Englishness making him better able to understand the similar German tongue than would a Frenchman
>>217705865>no Anglo-French union during ww2UUUUGGGHHH, what could have been...
>>217706534This. I've honestly worked myself into tears thinking about pre-ww1 European civilisation.
>>217706796The core of the language is Germanic and all higher stuff is Latinate. This is mostly due to legalism and the fact that law was done mostly in French and Latin. Science later brought in a lot more Greek.
>>217706026That's bollocks, France will fuck anything.
>>217705549I've drink as much wine in this past month than the average Frenchman does in a year. Neat!
>>217704981Neither
>>217704981What equivalent meme pic do you have for Italians?
>>217705086>idolize the americansAre you thick finngoloidWe typically loathe the murricans (for invading our culture too much)
They have two modes : worshiping the viking (skyrim) and worshiping the romans (oblivion)
>>217704981French
>>217704981To Germans.
>>217712348>>217710178You are foreigners and thus unqualified to comment on this topic.
GERMANY
>>217705106rude
>>217705066French people are rather nice.
