A bit of stereotypes, a bit of French culture

Hi! Today we will briefly see what a national stereotype is. Without wasting any time, let's go! What is a national stereotype? This joins what we said last week. They are invented on the basis of a highly visible characteristic trait of the individual and then it is attributed to the nation as a whole. Like other stereotypes, they are not modifiable, it is even difficult to modify them in because of the unwillingness to change people's mindsets, so too with ignorance - we don't pay attention to reality, we just repeat stereotypes about nations we have never had contact with.  As we have said before, people guided by stereotypes do not confront beliefs with reality and therefore do not verify the accuracy and truthfulness of the stereotypes they emit and use on a daily basis. When we talk about national stereotypes, we can observe one of their functions which is to present a given nation with the help of characteristic traits that should not be attributed to every citizen -...

Hi! As you know stereotypes surround us in all areas of life. We can find them in literature, in mass media. Even in iconography we can look for stereotypes, because how to present a Frenchman in a different way from that of a man wearing a striped blouse, with a beret on his head, with a curly mustache and a baguette under his arm ? But to fully understand them, we first need to know what a stereotype is. Before I go to show you the multiple sterotypes about the French and Poles, today I will briefly explain what a stereotype is - such a short definition. 😊 Walter Lippmann was the person who in 1922, in his work Public Opinion , introduced the concept of the stereotype as "images in our heads […] of simplified descriptive categories by which we seek to situate others or groups of individuals." We must remember that the stereotype is present not only in sociology but also in linguistics. So in linguistics, in general, we can learn that it is an assembly of stable linguistic ...

Today I come to you with a post on November 11th - a national holiday for Poland called the Independence Day. I will briefly describe what it looks like from the French side. What is this day for them, do they celebrate this day in any special way? Remembrance Day is a day important both for countries in Europe and for the Commonwealth countries. This day commemorates the sacrifices of World War I as well as other wars. For France, because we will focus on it, it is the anniversary of the armistice of 1918, the day of November 11th was instituted by the law of 1922 "national day for the commemoration of the Victory and of the peace" . The law of 2012 broadens the scope to all deaths for France. It is therefore the recognition of the whole country with regard to all the Dead for France who fell during and since the Great War that is expressed this day, particularly towards the last of them.  Every November 11th, France pays tribute to the fighters and victims of the First Worl...

My name's Patrycja and I'm a master's degree student of French philology. I lived in France for 4 years of my childhood. Hence my interest in France and everything related to it. For the next 15 posts you will have to deal with me :)  After a six-month break from writing a blog, I come back to it again. I do not hide that it will probably come to me what exactly I will write about while I'm writing this blog. So far my idea for this blog is a combination of stereotypes and French culture. What do I mean by that? I would like to focus on French stereotypes - I will certainly raise in a few posts the issue of stereotypes that are present in French culture between the northern part of France and its southern coast. Perhaps I will also raise the issue of the national stereotype. I will definitely write something about the holidays during them - how does it look like in French culture, how they are celebrated there, etc. I will probably think of the rest over time wh...