Do you believe the french are arrogant?

French people are not arrogant. They are prideful, just like americans. The only difference is that french people know when to surrender. Americans will charge guns a blazing until we are the last ones standing.

The only French person I knew was my school therapist. She had a nice moustache so the arrogance was earned.

I have family from england and I love the UK but from the people I talk to on the internet the ones from the UK seem to be quite arrogant and have a superiority thing. Ive never noticed it with any french person I've ever spoken too.

Britishers are the most arrogant.

They are, but they are more or less deservedly of their arrogance. Their food is fantasic and has changed the world over, their language is pleasing to the ear, even when they are insulting.

Most Parisians' would prefer a bichon frise occupy an unused seat near them in a cafe than a foreigner; yet part of me respects that as fashinoble duchebaggery.

That is somehow romantic in a way that a Brit claiming, "all hail the queen", and kicking a foreiner aside in a pub isn't.

Kinda, but they're certainly not the worst.

Not really, there is a race I find much more arrogant.Don't know whether I should reveal it though because there may be people on here of that nationality.

I've never met a french person. I've heard they're very fussy about their language though and doesn't like it when foreigners attempt to speak french but do so poorly. Don't know if that's true but if so, yeah, they're arrogant because you can't expect a foreigner to pronounce a new language perfectly. Especially such a hard one as french.

Many French people seem to view service-orientedness as a lack of self-respect or a sign that someone is tricking you or currying favour, and a person's rights tend to take precedence over their responsibilities to others. Justice is cold, impersonal and mathematical except when it plays favourites. A thing is only wrong if you get caught.

In a way you can understand it. They fought tooth and nail for those rights, and for a release from oppression by pharisaical hypocrite priests and royals telling them to humble themselves and care for the poor all while bleeding them dry from their lofty chateaux.

I also think it comes down to national values and heritage and where the country stands in relation to its Judeo-Christian foundation.

France takes certain things and people like the Enlightenment, the French Revolution or Charles de Gaulle, creates a complex mythology around them, then ritualises them or turns them into secular saints, which they actively use to replace religious ones with, to the point of changing names on road signs. There is relatively little 'room' left amongst all of this for a watered-down version of a post-Christian 'love your neighbour as yourself' or 'pride comes before a fall' or 'the last will be first' or 'let he who has not sinned cast the first stone'. French writers with Christian roots were phased out of school curricula after secularism laws were introduced, whereas we still have Shakespeare and Chaucer who would carry something of this ethos on even if Christianity itself died in the Anglophone world.

I don't recall them being arrogant when I was in France. Generally helpful was my key impression.

Of course, some people have bad days or are just have a bad attitude anyway. Others are amazingly easy to get along with.

Also, it helps if you don't present the attitude that "your country" has all the solutions and answers. Arrogance is often reflected back to someone who themselves is arrogant.

I spent a week in Paris and definitely yes. First of all, I handed my passport to a woman customs officer with more facial hair than my uncle Jake, and she snarled at me in French things that I didn’t understand and stamped it and threw it back at me. Then we would as for directions and nobody seemed to know where anything was. They said they didn’t understand English and the would look at us with a disgusted look when we tried to speak French. A woman at the Louvre deliberately passed over me at the refreshment stand when I pointed to a bottle of water and had American money in my hand. In short, it’s a beautiful country but would be better if it weren’t for the people.

That's putting it lightly. The French don't even like French people.

I don’t know any French people

They held a solid role as an all powerful country for a few hundred years... not so much anymore.

I don’t know, but I have a weird little crush on French people. I don’t know why but I find them funny and I’m just into them for some reason