Is it normal to believe that the french have the most class of any nation?

The French don't hate you. You're so new, they've barely had time to even acknowledge that you exist.

The US have a very love-hate relationship with the French. They trained to see them as 'rude' or 'filthy' or whatever, but are also taught to revere them as the pinnacle of modern culture.

On a somewhat related note, wine culture is fabricated, status-masturbating bullshit.

Your fine wine statement reminds me of a little anecdote.
There was once a wine tasting contest in France. A little known Californian wine beat out about 2000 other wines. The French taste testers were very pissed that an American wine beat their wines.

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Knight Nigel Wellington XXI

French are just like americans. It's true that they are known for being fine eaters but in their everyday life there's just like you and me. They don't drink fine wine everyday or whatever you may think. I have had the chance to live with french people long enough to know and they love americans.

France hating America is a stereotype. I have been there twice and I love their culture too.

God knows I love French music and history to a fault, but would you consider a people civil/cultured who refuse to keep museums open from 12-2 (during their 2-hour lunches) when it's the only practical time you can be there??

Would you call a nation cultured where the museum ticket seller won't let you visit the top floor in the last 15 minutes a particular museum is open (you arrived late without knowing the hours of that museum and must leave that city before it opens again, so not only won't you have a chance to see it, you were only interested in the top floor to begin with so 15 minutes is plenty to see one specific medieval artist's work)? They told you you'd not be getting your money's worth as their reason for refusal. Not their business if I do or don't get it.

Sorry, they are pompous, not blatantly so as the Germans, but actually more hypocritical.

There are pigs and aristocrats in all societies and cultures. Unfortunately.

The same can be said of the intelligent and dull. And the moral and immoral. And the attractive and less attractive.

And the list goes on.

The percentage's might differ a little from here to there, but mostly it's subjective and based on the rather small sampling that you quite randomly are subject to.

Similarly I might be bored out of my mind by someone whose interests completely fascinate you, and the reverse is true as well.

ADVICE
Surround yourself by people whose company, intelligence, goals, ambitions, humor, morals, culture, etc. most align with your own. For this is the surest way to a more satisfactory experience of life.

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Damn I lost my time!
I made a really long post telling my opinion but it was too long to post.
Anyway, I'm French: We have a nice culturage heritage but we're losing our individuality to your culture.
The "French touch" is long dead. France is going down the drain, we're getting merged as another part of america, we got influenced by you and lost our ways.
At least we still have our whine and smelly cheese.
If you ever go to Paris, go to the Marais, it's the only place where you'll find interesting people and good restaurants.
Go to "L'as du Fallafel" at least once.
Paris is a dirty, smelly city inhabited by drunkards and mean boring people. We lost our class and manners a long time ago, it's just a stereotype you were fed by your medias and enthusiasts who just visited, try coming to live here and you'll see it's not a nice place.
You're way classier than us and more polite than us. I think that pretty much tells you how low we've sunk.
I'm not a fanboy of america, I'm really being sincere. It's over, class isn't to be looked for in france but in old movies, interviews of Salvador Dali and old songs.
Want some class: listen to my great-grandma singing:
http://player.qobuz.com/#!/track/1385294
You are much more respectful of others, be it because you have to to keep your jobs, you still are. You're cleaner, I never saw any city I went in as dirty as french ones.
We suck. I'm saddened to see our individuality and what once made us great being sucked away.
Our new generation is the "trash generation" my 13 years old cousin already has sex and is raised watching MTV, she thinks Sexy Dance movies are masterpieces and dress like a whore. I'm not even exagerating, all of this is true.
Tl;dr: Visit France, don't try to live in it or if you do stay away from big cities. At least, we have cheese and Versaille! :P

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French hating americans i think you are mixed with the english alot of resentment towards one another for countless wars but they are on good terms anyway. Still no country has absolute class every nation has its assholes and then some so stop reading into stereotypes so much and have a look for yourself, don't judge the persona of one individual for the rest of his/her kin.

The Palace of Versailles? Not really a representative building for french life style, is it? I think the french you admire so much are the rich ones. You should visit a banlieu some time. The normal people in france are just like normal people everywhere. And if you don't go to a very fancy restaurant the food is better in any neighboring country.
But yes, the rich french have a lot more class then the rich americans.

i've always felt the same way! french have etiquette and manners. i wish i was born french!!

As a Canadian who was forced into the age old Anglophone VS Francophone debate, I personally don't like French people in general. That's not to say I don't like all of them, my sister's fiancee is French and I love him to death, but in general they're incredibly rude and presumptuous people who think VERY highly of themselves. A bunch of my friends went to Rome and they took a tour with a group of French tourists who spoke perfect English. The tour guide told a joke in English and my friends all laughed and then the French people, who had completely understood the joke, made him tell the fucking joke AGAIN and in French, and then they didn't even laugh because they already knew the punchline. That's just what kind of people they are. Whenever I drive through Quebec or Montreal they always drive like fucking idiots and either tail gate me all the time, honk at me or pass me going a good 30 clicks or so above the speed limit. When I was staying in Montreal once I was pretty much the only Anglophone in the hotel and I was stuck next to a rude couple in the room next to me, and they filed a noise complaint on me at 5 o'clock in the afternoon. While I was napping. Some bitch from the front desk came and chewed me out. Ugh, I just despise a lot of those people, especially because France is the place where Foie Gras was invented, which is like one of the most disgusting and inhumane foods out there.

To be fair though, the French Revolution is one of my favorite Historical events.

Bah you and I love the French for different reasons. I love them...well because I have to. Their blood flows through my veins.

It's a myth btw; the French hating the Americans. There's little truth in it.

Although if/when you go there be prepared as their customs are not America's. What's seen as strange here is very normal in France.