Actually, the French as we know them know are sadly, living proof of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Remember the French have not always been as they are now. Do you think it is by accident that France has the largest piece of real estate on the European map? They use to be some real bad asses. And then.....there was Napoleon and his invasion of Russia. So what does this have to do with short, ugly, spineless Frenchmen you ask?

This is the point. First, Napoleon was very charismatic. He was also a very competent strategist. But at the time of the Russian invasion, he had become rather cocky. He invaded Russia with a army numbering around 600,000. That's right; over half a million Frenchmen invading another country to open up a can of whup-ass. Napoleon did eventually defeat the Russians (in a manner of speaking) and occupied Moscow, but when he returned to France, his army had shrunk to less than 40,000.

Those 560,000+ casualties removed from the French gene pool a large amount of genetic material. It also removed quite a large chunk of culture also. I say this because afterwards French culture and society was molded by those who were too short, too ugly, too weak, or too cowardly to fight for Napoleon. And the 40,000 that came back from Russia? Of those of you with any military experience, remember the person--and there is one in every group--who always found some way to not be where the fighting, work, etc...was. You know, bottom feeders. That last is only an educated guess, but it fits the facts.

So the French are the way they are because of the way they were; only all those whose heirs could have changed the future (our present) are dead.