How France is beloved in the States

When walking around in the italian neighbourhood of Boston, I discovered a great shop with a nice "devanture".Two ennemies : the New York Yankees and France...So the France/Italy rivalry developed from last Football competitions is not limited to France and Italy themselves....
And everyone like France...it's like well known :-p or not!!!!!!!!!
I dont have a clue why they dont like us....
who said "arrogant"????? :-)