r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Camus_9999 • 6h ago

Meme needing explanation Peter? I don't know French.

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u/Iraqimedstudent 6h ago

French name for spongebob. Don’t know what they are bullying him for

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u/WishYouWere2D 6h ago

Because they didn't go to French school. They showed up at an English school using the French name.

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u/Iraqimedstudent 6h ago

And? I mean, at least in what I witnessed, we have arabophone and anglophone schools but you’d here kids using Arabic, English, French, Turkish, Russian and even German names for cartoons then manage to figure out which is which through description only to chat on the lore for the whole recess… I don’t get where the grounds for bullying are? Is French stereotyped negatively in the US? (Which I assume to be the most monolingual country where such things would be plausible?)

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u/WishYouWere2D 6h ago

The English-speaking students thought it sounded stupid. That's all. You're giving school bullies way too much credit.

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u/Iraqimedstudent 6h ago

Well, thank goodness I’ve not been bullied at school (it was pretty rare in the ones I attended, subtle sectarianism was a bigger concern) so I’ve never really understood the dynamics lol. Sorry if I expanded a bit onto a socio-behavioral aspect…

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u/urkermannenkoor 5h ago

Well, thank goodness I’ve not been bullied at school

Yes, that is surprising.

Sorry if I expanded a bit onto a socio-behavioral aspect…

*Rambled incoherently about wholly irrelevant things.