Why do people still believe that France is a Mediterranean country?

[renaissance12]

And all of France have that aspect?

Give back to Italy provence and Haute-Savoie.....and Corsica of course..

[Leo Iscariot]

Because it is?

[Vožd]

Because south coast is on Mediterranean lol

[Chocolate_Hound]

France to me is this weird in-between. It's too Germanic to be Latin, but too Latin to be Germanic. French also sounds much harsher than other Romance languages.

Overall it's not Mediterranean either, save for the southern portion (which many action movies have filmed the hell out of). They're firmly Western European.

Also "Mediterranean" is more of a geographical term than a cultural term. It mostly applies to countries like Spain, Italy and Greece. Mainland Balkans for example is its own thing. Even most of Turkey is distinct from Mediterranean influence.

[JamesBond007]

France to me is this weird in-between. It's too Germanic to be Latin, but too Latin to be Germanic. French also sounds much harsher than other Romance languages.

Overall it's not Mediterranean either, save for the southern portion (which many action movies have filmed the hell out of). They're firmly Western European.

Also "Mediterranean" is more of a geographical term than a cultural term. It mostly applies to countries like Spain, Italy and Greece. Mainland Balkans for example is its own thing. Even most of Turkey is distinct from Mediterranean influence.

France isn't Mediterranean it's European. Britain is not European if anything besides geography.

France is Latin + Celtic with Germanic and slavic minorities how the fuck is that med ?

It is myth just like it is a myth Scots are Celtic.

[Chocolate_Hound]

France is not a Mediterranean country. only because in France the language is Latin, romance and religion are Catholic, they associate it with a Mediterranean or southern country, that is, they think in an ignorant and stereotyped way. What else does France have in common with the other Mediterranean countries? Most French people are diverse and do not have many predominantly Mediterranean aspects (except in the extreme south). There are many reasons why France should also be considered a European or Central European Atlantic country, the climate of France is different from the rest of the countries of southern Europe, only that the south coast of France has a Mediterranean climate the rest does not. The architecture is also different, they only have some connections with the Iberian and Italian architecture, but not much more. Even French food and customs are different.

If I had to choose a European country that had more in common with France than the rest, it would be the Belgian Wallonia and the French Switzerland would say that they are the countries that have more in common with France than the rest of the countries, including the Mediterranean.
Europe and France from the satellite view

Actually ethno-linguistic and religious affiliation mean quite a bit. The French are much closer to Italians and Spaniards than they are to Germans or Dutch people. Due to geographic positoin they have more Germanic influence compared to the others, but definitely France to me is Southern-European leaning if not outright it. They are a Latin people.

[Russki]

Having seen pictures from Northern France, I'm now also inclined to consider France a Mediterranean country.

[Africanwidow]

They are more south-western shifted than anything else.

[RareNightmare]

Southern France culturally transitions into Italy in the southeast and Spain in the southwest, and overall northern Italy has many cultural similarities with France. But in terms of genetics and phenotypes, France is transitional between north and south and is not solely Southern European.

Even Iberia has some significant genetic/phenotypical difference to other parts of Southern Europe.

I never heard about the med influence on the rhineland and southern Germany

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[Cristiano viejo]

I dont think France is a Mediterranean country but an African one.