boredcrapfromhistorygeek5 asked: Part two of two of rant: Another such thing is the who stereotype that the French are rude. They have seen etiquette codes and it angers them when tourists/people in general don't follow them. I.e they would like it if people attempted to speak their language. Like "Bonjour Monsieur, parlez-vous anglais ?" People are a guest in their country so they need be respectful. My boyfreind recalled of a time where a tourist said, "The french should thank us for helping them in WW2" It pissed him off.
I know what you mean.
Of course, in all honesty, I think there is such hostility between our nations on a personal and hospitality-related level that we all just like to complain about each other for the same things the other complains about them… Maybe.
In essence, my reaction to this was “God damn it, I’d get pissed if I heard someone say that too, about my country or not— oh wait; I already do!” I think the only thing we can do is ignore the idiots and just teach our own children not to be such douchebags. Right now it seems like everyone is angry about something and has something to say about it. You may not think so, but we deal with simmilar things here in the USA sometimes! I often hear things where some people say “X demographic should be thanking Y demographic for a,b, and c,” or “A-colored people really owe something to B people because of x and y.”
I apologize if I seem unsympathetic, but really I am trying to say that I understand! I think that since the 1960’s especially, people have been using their “right to free speech” here as an excuse to be complete jackasses. (I- I kind of have a love/hate relationship with the history of the 1960’s-70’s.)
It’s really unfortunate that the assholes that nobody likes (not even in their home country!!) are the people that always stick out like sore thumbs in front of the world. I’d love to just send them all away.
Anyway… if you’d like to you can submit long rants and stories as an actual text submission too! I’m not going to turn it down or anything. :D
![hetaliafanficpetpeeves:
He’s not a rapist. If any of you put “France” under your list of “warnings”, I’m coming after you.
People put “France” as a warning?
What?
No, that’s just so stupid.
It makes sense to put languages as trigger warnings, possibly, but countries? That’s just stupid, especially in Hetalia fanfiction. I mean, languages can be legitimate triggers for people, especially if someone was a war veteran, regardless of nationality, or went through some sort of traumatic event overseas or near certain ethnically concentrated areas (wow, that sounds kinda terrible, but the subconscious can’t help it!).
[Please don’t be upset for me saying that Languages can be triggers; you really don’t know until you’ve seen a huge and muscular ex-marine break down in tears because he hears a specific language or phrase in a language.]
France is not a new term for “non-consent;” don’t use it as such. It’s also improper tagging if you are assuming people to understand that as a warning. It’s not cute.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m76fblHCs91r7qszpo1_250.png)
![I’m wondering if this even counts… ;w;
Anyway here’s the (rather long) story
My friend Gully and I run ask blogs for France and Britain respectively (I run Britain obviously and she runs France) and an anon suggested that, since it was the 4th of July and Britain was feeling down, France should go over and they should answer questions together. So we did that, and it was fun, but there was this weird battle that started about who was more attractive, France or Britain. We were having a pretty good laugh about it…
BUT THEN OUT OF NOWHERE(!!)there was this anon (whom we nicknamed karma anon for the lulz) who was getting really, really, really butthurt and like… praising Britain for everything. This was mostly in my inbox, but in Gully’s… She didn’t post any messages, but she told me how karma anon was bashing France for being a horrible, rotten person and how he was “more of a pedo than Spain” and a “womanizing stalker”… Which she didn’t really let get to her, but thought that it would have probably gotten to France pretty badly.
In response, however, she sent me this message and asked me to draw a “not amused France” to go along with it, as well as the little monologue you see below. I was like FUCK YEAH GULLY YOU TELL ‘EM GURL … but she asked me to take credit for it instead.
Long story short, she’s a fucking amazing person for defending France’s case. It all worked out pretty well in the end because karma anon apologized and everything was happy sparkles. :D
Ha ha, of course it counts! I really like seeing things like this. It takes a lot of willpower to handle such situations so well; this makes me really happy.
It’s good to hear that that anon even apologized, usually persistent people like that can get really defensive, even when you’re as polite as possible.
[In my head canon, I think France could handle such comments well except for when he’s heard too much or when he’s just not in the mood for anyone’s bullshit. Maybe he could get set off by someone saying certain things to him though.]
I love this so much. :D](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6qcxdtyAV1rsta2fo1_250.png)
![wtfhetalia:
I have some things to say about this, but I won’t say it. I won’t be able to stop myself.
[Since when does getting excited and “heating up,” as they put it (that makes it sound more like an erection than excitement), automatically mean erotic attraction? I get excited over a lot of things that aren’t “arousing.”]
I’m sure you’re all thinking what I would have said anyway. v.v](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6k3zfc7Md1r4hclio1_250.jpg)
