[peter12]

Originally Posted by jammies

The French love political theatre and confrontation. This is a pretty extreme example, but there is a much more militant tradition of labour activism there than anything seen over here since the Wobblies.

BTW, the whole "French cowardice" thing is complete bs. Why don't we all pick on the Czechs, or the Poles, or the Danes, or the Norwegians, or the Belgians, Dutch, Yugoslavs, Greeks, or any of the other nations the Nazis steamrolled? It was on the blood of the French that the Allies won WWI, American propaganda to the contrary. Losing WWII to a numerically superior enemy that had perfected a tactical doctrine 20 years in advance of everyone else's doesn't make French soldiers or the French in general cowards. Have a little more respect for a nation who has been Canada's ally and friend for over a hundred years.

And no, I'm not French or of French descent. It's just an ignorant and rude prejudice that has been imported from the USA and is long overdue for correction.

I somewhat agree, but you're also forgetting the Vichy government, the Maginot Line and the countless failures of French foreign policy since the Second World War.