Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys
Cheese-eating Surrender Monkeys (" cheese-eating surrender monkeys") is an American insult and ethnophaulism for the French . It refers to the typical cheese tradition of the country as well as the inability to successfully wage war without American support, which Americans like to assume.
background
The term was coined in 1995 by Ken Keeler , copywriter for The Simpsons , and is one of the most widely used expressions from the television series. Picked up by Jonah Goldberg in the National Review , the term also spread in the political environment and in social networks and books. It has also been included in lexicons and online directories such as the Urban Dictionary and dealt with in (social) scientific literature on intercultural discourse.
Ned Sherrin took him on to the Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations . It can be found in the Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations . In the run-up to the Iraq war , for which the then French government under Jacques Chirac refused the USA active military support, the term was particularly popular with the American public.
Use in series
The original source is the 1995 episode The Simpsons In Honor of Murphy (English Round Springfield ) in which due to budget cuts at the Springfield Elementary School caretaker Willie is forced to work as a French teacher. He greets the class with Bonjour, you cheese-eating surrender monkeys (“Good afternoon , you cheese-eating surrender monkeys ”), with his Scottish accent being clearly audible.
The French dubbing reduced the expression to singes mangeurs de fromage ("cheese-eating monkeys").
Goldberg used the abuse in April 1999 in a column called The Ten Reasons to Hate the French . For a few more columns he retained the Francophobic stance.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Charles de Gaulle : Comment voulez-vous gouverner un pays qui a deux cent quarante-six variétés de fromage? "(" How do you want to govern a people who own 246 types of cheese? ") Quoted from Ernest Mignon (Constantin Melnik):" Les Mots du Général ", Verlag Fayard Paris 1962, p. 34
- ↑ Sex, Cheese and French Fries - Women Are Perfect, Men Are from France, Carine Fabius , eBookIt.com, 2006
- ^ Urban Dictionary, entry since 2003
- ^ Handbook of social science discourse analysis. 2. Research Practice, by Reiner Keller , Springer DE, 2004, page 358
- ^ Ned Sherrin : The Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations , fourth. Edition, Oxford University Press , Oxford; New York 2008, ISBN 0-19-957006-X , p. Xii; 137.
- ^ Russell Shorto: Simpsons quotes enter new Oxford dictionary . In: The Daily Telegraph , August 24, 2007. Archived from the original on December 2, 2008. Retrieved September 23, 2008.
- ↑ Chris Turner: Planet Simpson: How a Cartoon Masterpiece Defined a Generation . De Capo Press, 2004, ISBN 0-306-81341-6 , p. 54.
- ^ Ray Richmond, Antonia Coffman: The Simpsons: A Complete Guide to our Favorite Family . Harper Collins Publishers, 1997, ISBN 0-00-638898-1 , p. 173.
- ^ Denise Du Vernay, Karma Waltonen: The Simpsons In The Classroom: Embiggening the Learning Experience with the Wisdom of Springfield . McFarland, 2010, ISBN 0-7864-4490-8 , p. 12.
- ↑ Ben Macintyre: Last word: Any word that embiggens the vocabulary is cromulent with me . In: The Times , August 11, 2007. Retrieved August 3, 2011.
- ↑ Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys From Hell. In: National Review . April 16, 1999, accessed July 19, 2013 .