Americans hate the French for the same reason they do anything else: everyone's doing it. It's just the culture. Someone says, 'The French suck!', and the guy next to him says, 'Ya, they SUCK!'. Then the ditzy blonde next to him says, 'Ya, what he said!', and all of a sudden it's on t-shirts and hats.
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