{"id":8438,"date":"2011-03-25T09:09:15","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T13:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=8438"},"modified":"2018-01-11T16:05:31","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T21:05:31","slug":"french-stereotypes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/03\/25\/french-stereotypes\/","title":{"rendered":"French stereotypes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even if we have to stop calling them &#8220;Cheese-eating surrender monkeys&#8221;<sup><a href=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/03\/23\/naming-conventions-military-style\/\" target=\"_blank\">1<\/a><\/sup>, we still have all the other stereotypes to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2011\/mar\/25\/french-stereotypes-failure-wash?CMP=twt_fd\" target=\"_blank\">fall back on<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The myth of the great Gallic unwashed seems to have travelled back  to the US after the second world war with GIs shocked to discover that a  still largely rural population with scant access to hot and cold running water should, after four years of German occupation, not always consider irreproachable personal hygiene an overriding priority.<\/p>\n<p>It is, unfortunately, sustained by the odd wayward statistic. According to one 1998 survey only 47% of French people take a daily bath or shower, against 80% of Dutch and Danes. Worse, France&#8217;s own health education council calculated that if those 47% were being honest, the country&#8217;s annual soap consumption should be 2.2lb a head, whereas it happened to be 1.3lb.<\/p>\n<p>Another 1998 report found that only 60% of French men and 75% of French women pulled on clean underwear every morning.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even if we have to stop calling them &#8220;Cheese-eating surrender monkeys&#8221;1, we still have all the other stereotypes to fall back on: The myth of the great Gallic unwashed seems to have travelled back to the US after the second world war with GIs shocked to discover that a still largely rural population with scant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,1117,66,7,57,230],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-france","category-health-science","category-history","category-humour","category-ww2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2c6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8438"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41686,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8438\/revisions\/41686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}