Is It Me Or Does Nicolas Sarkozy And Emmanuel Macron Look French?

[MickeyMcfinnegan]

I've noticed this with quite a few french people also I did that you just new where they were from before they started speaking, genetic maybe?

https://www.thestar.com/content/dam/thestar/news/world/2013/03/06/is_nicolas_sarkozy_about_to_make_a_comeback/nicolas_sarkozy.jpg

https://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/660/cpsprodpb/183A3/production/_96053299_gettyimages-682964038.jpg

^And don't ask me what's going on in that picture^

[Tilly2]

They are both little and neat. Is that a Frenchman trait?

[MickeyMcfinnegan]

You have me laughing tilly2. No genetics does not mean their dress sense or size but inherited characteristics but thanks for that.

[Tilly2]

...but they are both little and neat. :-)

[Tilly2]

You said, Look French, not act French!

[MickeyMcfinnegan]

That they are tilly2, that they are

[MickeyMcfinnegan]

Well I'd be surprised if they didn't act french as they're french but the funny thing I've found with the french presidents is that they all seem a little clouseuesqe.

[MickeyMcfinnegan]

And to add to that clouseu theme just see how much they spend on makeup, they make my faerie boy look like mike tyson so they does

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/08/24/emmanuel-macron-has-spent-26000-makeup-first-three-months-french/

[Prudie]

I know what you mean, also some people just look obviously Welsh to me (the young Tom Jones type face). It must be genetic.

[MickeyMcfinnegan]

Yes I agree with the taffs also I do but they don't all look like Tom Jones but more like Anthony Hopkins, short, hunchy with pronounced brows and loping foreheads but hearts of gold the taffs, hearts of gold.

[youngmafbog]

And lurk under bridges?

Is this news or has it always happened?

[douglas9401]

I think somebody looking a bit Macrony could well be Italian.

[MickeyMcfinnegan]

Well as it's genetics I'd guess it's been happening for a long time I think.

[Cloverjo]

I hope I don't offend our Irish contingent here, but Irish men always look very Irish to me. I've never noticed the same with French or Welsh.

[Mamyalynne]

I had a teacher who looked Egyptian, he came from Truro it transpired.

[Old_Geezer]

It's more persuasive if one doesn't know the nationality of the individual before deciding which they look like. Folk's brains have an ability to justify and find reasons for matching when the answer is known in advance.

[ichkeria]

Presumably you know X is from Y before you make your judgment.
So it's largely meaningless.
You need to play a "guess where they're from" quiz form this observation to have any value.

[ichkeria]

Sorry og, yet again I missed your post, saying the same thing. I needn't have bothered!

[aelmpvw]

don't know about macron looking french but the chap behind him in the link certainly does

[anotheoldgit]

I'd say a person wearing a beret with a string of onions around his neck, certainly looks French.