Je suis français et je tient a dire que les escargots ne sont pas des insectes mais des gastéropodes, autrement dit, des mollusques terrestres. Salutations.

Snails aren't insects... they are gastropod.

it's amazing how much an non french guy can understand that much the french culture and the history and now in 2024 we need in France more people that love the culture, the history and the country even if the governement is not the best actually. love your video and keep going !

Le général De Gaulle avait une vision très politisée du fromage. Pendant la guerre il a dit « Un pays qui produit 365 sortes de fromages ne peut pas perdre la guerre ». Puis quand il était Président « Comment voulez-vous gouverner un pays où il existe 258 variétés de fromages ? » En réalité il y a plus de 1200 variétés de fromages français.

en tous cas vous avez bien l'esprit gaulois comme on dit ^^ (français) ; vous râlez, rigolez de vous-même et prenez au sérieux la qualité de vie ! (et votre prononciation est bien meilleure que celle du présentateur du documentaire !) well done mum !

Do not mix ethnicity and religion, the guy said « Maghreb » which means Northern Africa, most of them are Muslims. Your reaction is very heartwarming : thank you. Greetings from France 🇫🇷, region Beauce : wheat and Chartres’ gorgeous cathedral.

Snails are actually delicious with garlic butter, but we don't eat them on a regular basis, they're a delicacy we keep for Christmas. Cheers from Amiens (no one cares about us but our cathedral and the Hortillonages are pretty dope)

As French, I'm happy to know there is at least one American who understand our way of life 🤗 To work is important, but less than our lives ! And we have only one, we should'nt miss it. Another thing: your French accent is light 👍

Hi Uncle D, Happy to meet you again. I live in Perpignan now (the Pyrenees mountains to the south, by the sea and bordered by the Spanish border-shown on the map in the video), but I'm Parisian by birth. My two grandmothers were also Parisians, like yours. Some statements in this video should be reconsidered: - Concerning horses, we always show photos of mounted horses to discuss the horse industry and the consumption of this meat (like in this video). But, in reality, the main source is made up of draft horses or draft foals and, more succinctly, of mounted horses at the end of their life. There is still a French equine meat sector, but it is insignificant compared to the pork, beef, and poultry sectors (less than 1%). Half of the equine herd is kept on farms, and the breeding of heavy horses (40% of the national herd) is concentrated in the mountain areas, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Massif Central and Rhône-Alpes. If they were actually consumed in the past, it was especially in times of scarcity (wars, epidemics, destroyed crops due to climatic conditions such as droughts, hail and repeated frosts, etc.). The custom took hold and horse butcheries emerged. But, it was mainly in the north of France (Paris and Parisian regions included) until the end of the 1980s. Previously, they only offered French draft horse meat. Today, most horse butcheries have closed. Those that remain are mainly located in the northernmost region of France (Hauts-de-France ⇾ the region located in the far north of mainland France) and principally offer imported horse meat. Elsewhere, we hardly find any anymore. Then, even if we still find a section reserved for horse meat in hypermarkets, this is very succinct and only offers horse meat from Argentina (not recommended because Argentine legislation is much laxer than the French and authorizes the massive use of antibiotics and hormones). The French sector has become exhausted by consumption habits that have significantly evolved since the 90s. Good to know. Horse meat has a taste very close to that of beef (slightly more pronounced) and is much better for your health (much leaner). It also presents interesting energy qualities. - For snails, 700 million snails consumed in France may seem like an astronomical figure. However, the current French population is approximately 68 million individuals. This, therefore, represents a dozen snails per head (mainly consumed during the end-of-year holidays, Christmas and New Year's Day). In addition, we must remove from this figure tourist consumption, which is not less, since most visitors from abroad, who come to spend a few days in the territory, taste this typically French dish at least once (France being the most visited country in the world with more of 70 million visitors per year). As for the consumption of raw or lightly cooked meat, again, we must put it into perspective: consumption is tiny. The most consumed meat in France is pork, and in second place, chicken. - Regarding the strict rules for broadcasting songs in French on the media, I am always amused that the Anglo-Saxons are surprised, knowing that they themselves mainly listen to the English variety on their media. Other languages are under-represented. In addition, American and English protectionism is much more drastic in terms of the distribution of foreign works (cinema, music, etc.) than the French model. This is also the reason for the existence of channels similar to yours. Note: the word “France” means: “Land of free men”. The origin of the name (frank) is Proto-Germanic and means “javelin” or “spear.” The metaphor of the javelin thrown into the air gave another etymology to the word by defining it as “free” (frank ⇾ free) in the ancient Germanic languages (the “Franks” became afterward the “François” and later the “Français” and, of course, the country “France,” being the country of the Franks by extension, means “the free men's land,” so). Peace, folks. ☮👈😎

Many singers come from other French-speaking countries (Belgium, Switzerland, Quebec (Canada), West Africa...) But Belgium is the biggest supplier, that's for sure.

Jacques Brel... was Belgian not French

Good analysis but he forgot a fact that makes France great, the world record for fastest time for a dog to jump 5 hurdles on a skateboard : 2.46 sec. Proud to be French.

Hey, I'm french and found your channel a couple days ago, I'm also from the Alsace region briefly mentioned in this video

Quelle bonne surprise de vous entendre parler en français. 👏👏👏

Most of them are true even if some are outdated. And why we like strikes is often to defend the rights that our elders have won. :)

This information is quite accurate. Snails are excellent because they taste absolutely not like snails but rather like melted butter and garlic. It's not true that it rains all the time in Paris.... Sometimes it snows. As for New Caledonia, 3 referendums were voted on and 3 times they chose to remain French. (we can't get rid of it). As for Cheese (fromton or fromtogom in Parisian slang) there are more than 1200 kinds. It's true it's an invasion, in my tiny village in Normandy I have Australian, English and Dutch neighbors.. A real tower of Babel.👍👍😉

re: vacations, it's not up to the corporate management to decide: the 5-week a year vacation is mandatory. And that comes on top of the many Bank holidays (Christmas, Easter, ...) and the "ponts" (bridges): if a Bank holiday, say the 14th July were to fall on a Thursday, the following Friday would be a paid day off too because ... there's the weekend coming just after that. These occurences are known as "long weekends".

I know at our local farmer's market (I think that's the english term? it's a market that takes place a couple days a week depending on the location) we do have "horse butchery" which is a butcher dedicated to horse meat (though it is far less common than beef or porc for that matter)

About ethnicity ; it's estimate than between 5 and 7 millions french peoples have ( partially or totaly) italian roots because of massive immigration from Italy since the end of the 19 th century.This is the largest sub-ethnic group in France.

thank u so much for showing this documentary very complete of my country ! Our media aren't able to admit we have in France countless beauties and wealths. There is a French culture contrary to what Macron says.

We also got electricity since a few weeks !

Horse is not "regularly" and less and less people eat it, but it's so damn good, snails are great too, but only eaten around christmas

16.45 you are soooooo right mate, i love being french !!!!

Jacques Brel come from Belgium but He's french in our heart.

WOW, je regarde depuis longtemps tes vidéos, je ne savais pas que tu parlais aussi bien français ! Bravo !

Hello and thanks for this reaction vid. First of this all, your mum did a great jog 'cause your french is rather good. 👏 And, about the video itself, I would say that 80% is right, 15% is approximative and 5% is wrong.

Bonjour, Most of the information is correct... Factual. That said, there are some exaggerations thrown in for laughs.... Otherwise, we have 5 weeks of paid leave, it's mandatory. And employers are very regulated in what they can do... it's impossible to be fired by text message like in your country... Cordialement, Lyzbeth d'Andrésy.

I'd say overall 70% correct, some inaccuracies are due to the things having changed because the video is kinda old. But yes mostly ok :)

Most of the musliims come from north africa (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt etc.)

horse meat is in decline in France that is for sure, but you can fine some. and snails and frogs are not regular dish, most of people eat that for some special occasion like Christmas eve. actually chinese or vietnamese restaurant serve frogs way more than french one

I really like your laid back attitude. You give off a holly jolly kind of guy 🙂👍

And don't forget to mention the French women too ! 😍

Lake Leman does have a bit of France...like Evian, the town where the mineral water is bottled at... I never eat horse myself, or know anyone that does.

horse WAS consumed regularly...it was an old doing of soldiers from 18/19th century during wars. they had to eat their horses to stay alive...fast forward a bit and horse meat devellop quite a bit for a century or so. Habits of eating horse meat kinda died of in the 60's or 70's. You can still find a handfull of horse butchery in france and some people still eat it as a delicacy but I would say 98% of people don't eat horse nowdays

Eating horse was quite common about 40 years ago but it is also a prestigious meat and therefore rather expensive compared to beef. This disappeared little by little with the impoverishment of its people who can no longer afford it but mainly because of animal protection associations. And the result is that now, horses are becoming much rarer in our regions and are bred for the very popular horse race for betting, which I find much worse treatment than eating them after raising them happily in the countryside. We will thank the defenders of good thinking for this. No longer wanting to eat horses means greatly reducing their population and reserving the little that remains for practices in which the most inhumane mistreatment (doping, selection and genetic crossing) can be allowed. Too bad, the taste of horse meat is truly exceptional.

France is a wonderful country... poorly governed. About the video, there are a lot of "clichés". No, the French don't take naps, it's just an old joke about Corsica. No, not all French people eat snails... personally I love frog legs with parsley 😄. No, each region does not speak its own dialect but like in most countries around the world there are different accents. I also noted an unforgivable error regarding the singer Jacques Brel. He was Belgian and not French and he was a wonderful artist. Belgium also offers great things, they gave us Lara Fabian 😉 . Yes, France is a wonderful country, but a country which is losing its bearings and which will soon lose its soul 🤕. regards and respect from France D. and sorry for my approximative English 😉.

My small village got mention! ... Ô VINDIEU IT'S BECAUSE OF OUR CHEESE YAAAAY LONG LIVE BEAUFORT(the city not the sea, also the cheese)

the video is somewhat old. there's less regions now as some have merged, and the New-Caledonia referendum was been held, the "remain" vote passed in abstract.

In fact, we have no ethnic statistics. But relatively serious estimates put the number of Muslims at between 8% and 10%. What may seem strange is that the majority of the descendants of these populations are concentrated in the country's urban areas, less so in rural areas.

Jacques Brel was not French, but Belgian.

If you get the chance, try some snails - it isn't very special and nearly all the taste is butter and garlic and some fresh herbs, but who except some vegans doesn't like butter and garlic and fresh herbs...

80 % right

hi I'm French and the French don't eat raw meat?! Except for a dish called "steak tartare" which is freshly seasoned beef with seasoning (pickle, onion, capers, mustard, tabasco... and a raw egg), we mix everything and eat it. :) it's delicious as long as you have good quality meat. Otherwise all French people cook their meat.... And some French people hate steak tartare, snails, horse meat like me for example!! I don't eat horse, and it's very rare to find a horse butcher's shop in France in our time. You have a very good accent :) there are around 6 million French people who are Muslims. French labor law imposes 5 weeks of leave for a year of work, employers have no choice! :)

snails are a bit weird texture wise but with a nice preparation they are tasty

His French is terrible... 🤣 On the German borders, many people speak Franconian, a Germanic language. People work for its preservation (but they speak it on the German side of the border as well, so it won't go extinct anytime soon). Horse meat used to be consumed in the past, not regularly, but not rarely, either. There were even butchers specialized in horse meat, but not anymore, now, and I don't know anybody who would like to eat some.

France is one of the most notorious internet power. And is known to have some of the best fans. Obviously it depend on a country interest. But as an example. E sports is more popular in the US. Despite this, France 2nd league tickets sell more than any 1st league in the US. French online events also casually raise 10 millions every year for charity. And while other contres like Germany are plainly respected on the r/place event. And everyone let them do what they want etc. France get attacked all the time by larger communities or nations. And yet is always in the top largest size, and activity in the entire event.

Wine from Burgundy is better than Bordeaux. Because I live in Burgundy near Dijon.

The only big mistake is Jacques Brel who's Belgian. Now about Horse meat, no one in France (almost nowadays) eats horse meat. Actually in France horse meat has been a huge consumed meat after the mechanical car replaced the horse driven cars. After the second world war the gas motor car and farm tractor replaced quickly the horse driven vehicules, so there were so much old, wounded horses in the country that... yeah our grand parents and parents would just eat their meat. But today no, it's definitely NOT a popular eated meat, it's probably even really, really rare.

The North African+Maghreb are more or less Muslims... but only a bit more than half are full Muslims... which represents 5 to 6 % of the entire french population... But the 1st religion here is.... Atheism ! Many were christians (mostly catholics) at birth but but with time, the revolution and with the growth of knowledge in sciences, French became less and less religious.

New Calédonia représentant ☝️🫡

I leave french country... after 37 years ... im a romain 🦾🦾

21:09 pas seulement de touristes... - -'

We absolutely do not eat snails, frogs, or horses regularly, in fact it is extremely uncommon Snails are almost exclusively consumed for Christmas, frog legs is a dish you can find in some old traditional french restaurants, but no one really eat any ever, and I don’t think horse meat is still a thing either, it used to exist, maybe it still does, but the simple fact that I don’t know shows how rare it is anyway

T'as un meilleur accent que celui de la vidéo

About the CSA and CNC in France; I actually don't know if the numbers are accurate, but the idea is still real. During the day, majority of musics on radio should be french (or french-speaking) and quite recent. During the night, the regulation don't put as much pressure. The idea though is to help french artists to have visibility. Without the CSA regulation, radios would probably always play songs of the TOP 50 Worldwide to attract people. So they choose to force everyone playing french songs, to limit the difficulty for french artists to live from their music. Overall, this video is not "wrong", it's more like "unaccurate". The point was more to discover a country in a funny video, but of course, you can't shorten such an old country history in 15 minutes. He had to do shortcuts. Actually, as a french, you would understand everything, every jokes, but as a non-french you can be misdirected sometimes. Not that you would understand something totally wrong, but you would miss the exact meaning. An exemple of that (among others) is when he talk about "friendzone" in the end. He says that Japan and Germany are close friends from France, and even if it's not wrong, it's hard to place them on the same level. German and french GOVERNEMENTS are really close and have strong relations, but german and french people are just neighbours. We are not really close, we don't really despise each others (exept for deadbrains racists that keep refering to WW2, but who cares about racists opinion). On the other side, french people (especially young generations) and japanese people do have this mutual fascination he's talking about, but our governements don't interact that much (just like the USA don't interact that much with India, for exemple). Most of the video have this kind of unaccuracies, but it's nothing really important, no big deal. This videos are funny introductions to other countries and cultures, not documentaries, so you can consider what was said as "good enough".

Snails are NOT insects! 😂🐌🦗

Nobody eat snails. 41 years old and i saw that one time.

3 weeks vacation in france is illegal.... 5 is a minimum :)

GEORGRAPHY NOW INDONESIA

Almost all of this statement is true. However, the demographic information is outdated. Regarding New Caledonia, it remains under French sovereignty since the vote to decide whether to pursue full autonomy or remain part of France resulted in a narrow victory for remaining a part of France.

Some of us can read and write.

Please react to Geography Now Romania too! 😊

Mr jacques Brel was BELGIAN not French

Most of it is correct. A little outdated but mostly true (~ 80%). Kudos from Bordeaux 😉

Yes we are smart, almost.

13 time zones sun.never sets on France

This is all correct (I'm french), except for eating horse... No it is not in common alimentation.

Maghreb is composed of 3 muslims countries : Algeria, Tunisia and Marrocco

12:30 Arabic population in france in majority comes from the Maghreb which include 3 countries which are : Algeria, Marocco and Tunisia. So they are in the 10% in this graphic but i really think that this number has increased those 5 last years. I think we can talk about explosion...

Let's not be too harsh with this video for a few errors, what would it be like if a Frenchman explained the United States? Or what if a Frenchman explained France to a Frenchman? 😁

I'm French and I can't eat snails too ^^

Aveyron = aligot 😍

trop bon le cheval

coucou depuis la Brie

Can you react to Geography now - Italy?

Just so you know, no we're not controled by brain parasites. And mine isn't writing this comment right now. And Jacques Brel, being my favorite french speaking singer ever, is sadly belgian not french.

Geography Now Indonesia please D

yes we eat horse meat i confirm ;-)

Vive le Camembert

Muslim is not a color type. ... there is many muslim as many juifs in France. 😅

The anti-englishization of our beautiful French language is not as resistant as the people's intellectual laziness that makes them fall for some anglo-french michmach... alas!

Descartes and not Decartes ;) for what it's worth

Mmmmmm Horses Snails and frog legs r so tasty well prepared, love that :)

Muslim is not an ethnicity. The graph shows the maghreb region, most of the muslims that came to France are from this area because they were colonized by France.

Hum no their is not a lot of muslim, the majority of the 10% u saw from the magrheb region are, but u should stop listening to the people who push this kind of narrative, cuz yeah even tho muslim are here in france (and they have the right to be and practice their religion) they are not as "numérous" as people would want u to believe.. I come from a family where half is muslim, the other half christian, and for some reason, some people in each half think the other want to replace them, but when they get together, those suspicion go away cuz they start talking with each other, know each other, and when u know who and what u are tlaking about, préjudices start to fade away.

You remove religions, politics, finance and everyone will love each other on a beautiful planet

In fact the we dont eat snail we just pretend so that when the english Come theyare curious and eat something that probably taste like shit

Il a fumé la moquette lui !!

Only one way to describe USA and France. USA is the hell on earth to live while France is the heaven on earth to live. And thank god I’m one of the luckiest citizens to be part of this paradise called France 🇫🇷. Viva la France 🇫🇷 viva la republic 🇫🇷🇫🇷❤❤💐💐💐

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a lot of mistakes in this video

Quit rigth 'monsieur' ...

Yep we eat horse regularly and its really good

C pas la seine qui passe a paris

Ce type raconte n'importe quoi sur la France !

Ha non la plupart des français détestent les cuisses de grenouille et les escargots , beurk !

Vous savez rien des Français

Be carreful it have many mistakes in this presentation of France Geography.

I was born in France and still live here...But my dream now is to live in USA, somewhere where i'll can live with huge space and without the fear to be attacked everyday by terrorism... It's not easy to explain but i really feel that this country (i don't say "my" country no more) is lost and that in 10/15 years it will be like in Lebanon. Too much foreigners with another religion (islam) coming in a too short time is gonna destroy all we have built the last 2000 years... Sad but this is like life, one time you die. 🙏

France is loosing its culture. La Chanson française, for exemple, is almost dying. The lyrics and music are increasingly poor.The only art that survive is cinema. But very few films are good... The school has been in free fall for 40 years. (The ravages of left-wing egalitarism and pedagogism...) Same thing for Police, Justice, Hospitals.... A big social crisis is coming because of lack of vision of our politicians. Industry has been ruined by Globalisation and euro. Tourism remains a good sector but salaries are very low. France is over-indebted. Immigration is out of control and an obscurantist islam is colonising more and more parts of France. Jews feel insecure and go back to Israel...That's the last straw! A parallel economy based on drug traffic and various robberys is becoming an insolvable problem. More and more policemen and lawyers are corrupted by traffickers. That is why Marine Le Pen (populist party) has a good chance to become our new President. It is not a good news because I think that she is a demagogue and has not a serious vision of economy... As you can see, I' m a genuine french man...Always complaining! (The french love to complain...) By the way, the report is pretty accurate but a little dated...(My testimony is more up-to-date!)