@Olivier5,
Olivier5 wrote:
...Now, imagine a French comedy show where all the Englishmen are closet homosexuals and the English women have two meter long teeth... Who in France would like to watch such a crude and rude show? No one, I wish to think...
Well, I do believe that the French have a more refined aesthetic taste for beauty. Meaning the French can tell a beautiful women; so can Italians discern beauty, and appreciate it. However, I am not so sure the Brits can always really discern beauty. I think they just like tallness and blondness, perhaps? But, the Anglo-Saxon face is not known to be "pretty." So, why would any French want to see British women with big teeth (they can watch Bugs Bunny cartoons for that)?
And, Englishman are not known to be closet homosexuals. There is a rumor that they have a disproportionate number of transvestites though.
Plus, a positive stereotype of the French is that they can get the darker complected populations of the world to relate to them better than more northern Europeans. Even back in the U.S. colonial days, they managed to get friendly with the Native Americans. I don't know why?
However, you are atypical, in that most French, I thought, could care less what a non-French person's opinion of the French was. Perhaps, you should weigh the advantages of being less "other directed" in your concerns?