“The headline was: Avez-vous vu ma chatte?” “I had lost my cat and decided to create a full outreach campaign with posters around my small Provençal village, as well as flyers in all the mailboxes. “It was 2012 and my French was not as fluent as it is now,” she says. If a spoken faux pas was not enough, imagine how Ameena Gorton felt when she realised what the posters she had plastered all over her village really said. There is no one here to collect your son.’ “A lady phoned back and said in English: ‘It is the groupe scolaire. “I said ‘ Cela ne m’intéresse pas’ and hung up. “Someone phoned and I thought they were doing just that, as I caught solaire. The same with religion.įor the ‘Bonjour’ thing… I think it’s also because we use it as a familliar geating, between friends and familly, so it can be weird coming from a stranger.“We had been getting a lot of cold calls from people trying to sell us solar panels. Plus, I’ve been rased with the thought that if I tell someone about my political opinions, I could be attacked because of them. And 60% of the frensh think that it’s gross.īut for the record, I’ve never eat frog, and I think it’s the same for 95% of the country, and those who have eat it, mostly think it’s not very good.įor the organs, I don’t think it’s so weird, I mean, we are killing the thing, why not eating everything there are?įor the Religion/political/money thing: we, most of the time, think that we are all equal, and those subjects can lead to discrimination, so, when someone show up and ask you something about it, you think that he’s gonna hate you if you don’t say what he like (because no one ask it, so if you’re asking it, you have a reason to do so). I mean, I have already eat snails, and I love that (you should try it at least once!) but, first, I eat it only at big occasions like chrismas, it not an ‘I-see-it-every-day’ kind of food. The eating thing is true, but what I find annoing is that we are seen as ‘weird eating people’, when it’s not really true. But it’s mostly because nearly all the frensh that live here are doing it only for there jobs or studies. So, it’s true that in Paris are more or less rude people. So if you speak to someone, you have to consider that if he didn’t try to learn by himself, and had regular grades for all his scolarity, he’s gonna know the basics sentences (if you speak slowly) and… that’s all. So even if you’re somone you love to help, there’s a limit to everything.Īnd third, you have to understand that until recently, (and it’s still not the best) our english learning system was… bad, to say the last. So when you, for exemple, stop a french to ask your way, youere NOT the first to do so. Second, you have to understand that Paris is the most visited town in the word. So if you are in the way when they have to run to be in time, they won’t be happy, and I can understand them… So there’s a great chance that they are either late, or tired, or both of the abrove. But you have to remember that first, in the subway, you meet people who are going to work, or from work to home. I mean I grew up next to Paris, and my parents grew up next to Paris, and I still don’t see myself as a ‘Parisienne’.Īnd just to reply to those who think that the parisians are rude… It’s true. There’s no particular culture from this town, I mean, if there’s one, it’s a mix of the ones in the rest of the country. It’s because (I think) we don’t exactly see Paris like a town, really, but more like the place you go to make your studies or to meet the right people to begin your career. And It’s often that you meet people who lived in Paris for there whole life, and still, they would tell you that they aren’t from Paris but from the birth town of there parents for exemple. It’s true that we hate beeing seen as ‘Parisiens’. You are right with every point! But I want to make some things clear with some of them:
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