# Why do so many Americans dislike the French?

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-so-many-americans-dislike-the-french/653877
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [March 25, 2013, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-so-many-americans-dislike-the-french/653877 "2013-03-25T01:23:43Z")
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### Author: ![Blkshp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blkshp/32/7135_2.png) [@Blkshp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blkshp)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2013, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-so-many-americans-dislike-the-french/653877/82 "2013-03-29T23:07:33Z")

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I always thought the Brits hated them for the way they treated Arthur when he was searching for the grail.

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### Author: ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2013, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-so-many-americans-dislike-the-french/653877/83 "2013-03-30T02:34:18Z")

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I used to work as a demo artist for a dealer of TDI Explore, a French 3D modeling and animation package. I was sent to New York to attend training on the new version. The training was done by the programmers - who smelled like homeless guys. Now I’m not entirely sure if that was because they were French or programmers.

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