Re: "He hates the French..."
Mm... 616 Steve definitely is. Ult Steve is - not more realistic, but some of his attitudes seem more typical.
616 Steve came out of the ice after a 20-year gap, and due to the sliding timescale has lived through a lot of the Civil Rights Movement. Ult Steve had an almost sixty year gap, and has only been out of the ice... three? years. So it wouldn't really surprise me if he was still holding some antiquated views. There's that great sequence with Ult Sam where he's well-meaning but clueless and Sam kind of exasperatedly updates him on a lot of stuff.