Lorelei B. Snow, works at Paris

Well, French people don't know China well enough, and their opinion is often based on clichés. So please don't be offend, the following argumentation is based on this.

Most of us often forget that China exsts for a veryyyyyyyy long time and has been an very important empire far before France even exsted, one of the most (the most ?) powerful empire on Earth. Because we have a rich history ourselves, we forget too often thaan we are not the onlu one in that case.

And we don't hear much (not at all in fact) about China's history at school.

So in lots of people's mind, China was a very poor co unist country who is not so poor anymore and is now buying our firms,  stealing our jobs (delocalisation blablabla) and will invade us all . And where there are faaaar too many people. Who are very short (clichés, clichés everywhere.) Who built the Great Wall, once. For reasons.

And in France, chinese people are seen as :

1-  rude Tourists with cameras who take pictures of evrything, including grass or trash cans

2 - owners of chinese food restaurants (who fear sanitary inspections)

3 - owner of cheap shoes:clothes stores.

4- guys with the hilarious accent

5- guys who build cheap things

6 - nice guys who never say no no anything

Our medias often talk about the stong repressions, the poor quality of products from China, the lack of freedom of speech, the pollution...Not very positive things (most of the time, not always)

So, I would say most of french people are very ignorant about China, its history, its culture. We know and understand very little of chinese culture and our clichés about you are not very nice, so most of french people don't have a very good opinion about China  (countrary to Japanese, who entered the global market sooner and have a serious avantage : mangas)

法国人对中国还不够了解，他们的观点往往是基于陈词滥调。无意冒犯,下面的论证是基于这一点。

我们大多数人经常忘记在法国存在之前，中国就存在很长一段时间而且是一个非常重要的帝国，是世界上最强大的帝国之一。因为我们自己也有丰富的历史，所以我们经常会忽视别人也可能有这样的历史。

我们在学校里并没有听到太多关于中国历史的东西(实际上一点也没有)。

所以在很多人的心目中，中国是一个非常贫穷的国家，但现在已经不再那么穷了而且正在收购我们的公司，偷走我们的工作等等侵。中国人太多，而且很矮；他们建了长城等（都是陈词滥调）。

在法国，中国人被视为:

1-粗鲁的游客，带着相机，到处拍照，包括草地或垃圾桶

2 -中餐厅业主(害怕卫生检查)

3 -廉价鞋店、服装店店主

4-口音滑稽

5-生产廉价产品的人

6-从不说“不”的好人

我们的媒体经常谈论的话题有：中国产品质量低劣，缺乏言论*由，污染……都不是很积极的事情(大多数时候，不总是)

所以，我想说的是，大多数法国人对中国、中国历史和文化都很无知。我们对中国文化了解甚少，所以大多数法国人对中国的看法都不是很好(对日本人的看法则相反，日本人更早进入全球市场而且有一个非常大的优势：漫画)

Martin, lives in Europe

It depends. In general, the French guy who is interested in Chinese culture might know China very well. The others might have very stereotypical view of Chinese.

因人而异。一般来说，对中国文化感兴趣的法国人可能对中国很了解。其他人对中国人的印象可能有成见。

Matthieu Cocteau, works at Mistergooddeal

Strong, clever, great nation, great culture, great food ! Hardworking nation

强大、聪明、伟大的民族、伟大的文化、美食!勤劳的国家

Dimas Wibowo, UI Designer for many successful products

i have a french friend... And She's just love the Chinese culture and also the people....ds

and she told me that many others just like her.....

我有一个法国朋友，她喜欢中国文化和中国人民。她告诉我，还有很多法国人的看法和她一样。