French people have a problem with hygiene and they are lazy?

Hello! Today it's time for the presentation of two another stereotypes about French.

France is the capital of perfumes, and this is where most of them are created, and yet the French are said to have a problem with hygiene and, as a result, smell bad. This stereotype dates back to the distant past, because until the time of Louis XIV when there was a problem of hygiene in Versailles. Since then, this cliché has been adopted to speak of the French in an unflattering way. A BVA poll from 2015 claims that only 57% of French people take a shower every day. This survey shows that after all, not all French people experience a sense of cleanliness every day.

The French are lazy and are on strike all the time. This stereotype ties in with the stereotype of being grumpy. The remark on laziness comes from the observation that the French have fewer working hours per week and are a country that is very often on strike. However, these facts do not mean that employees in this country are less productive, because the study conducted by Eurostat in 2011 shows that a French employee generates 13.5 euros more (45.40 euros) per hour than the average of the European Union (31.90 euros) thus proving their effectiveness despite the reduction in the number of working hours per week. When it comes to strikes, the French apparently have a very strong sense of struggle for their own needs. When they don't like something, they go on strike. This is very visible in the case of public posts, such as the employees of the SNCF (French National Railway Company), who paralyze the transport of other people when they go on strike. All this does not mean that they do not want to work and also that they are lazy.

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