Fun fact about the japanese and Paris

FootShooter

Apparently there's a syndrome called the Paris syndrome. It's when a japanese tourist is visiting Paris and suffers from extreme shock and a psychiatric breakdown after meeting the reality of Paris and realising Paris is not the greatest place on earth. Amazing.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6197921.stm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_syndrome

RichieC

I am also from the internet.

Hasmunch

FootShooter wrote: »

It's when a japanese tourist is visiting Paris and suffers from extreme chock

Is that how a japanese tourist pronounces it :pac:

challengemaster

Hasmunch wrote: »

Is that how a japanese tourist pronounces it :pac:

Thought it said extreme cock first...

Chuck Stone

Flown back home on a divine wind the poor feckers.

LighterGuy

Surely this cant be real?
Cause if it is there are some serious fu*king idiots out there ...

randylonghorn

challengemaster wrote: »

Thought it said extreme cock first...

You would!! :pac:

The Japanese embassy has a 24-hour hotline for those suffering from severe culture shock, and can help find hospital treatment for anyone in need.
However, the only permanent cure is to go back to Japan - never to return to Paris.

They should look for culture (club) in japan!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZVrjWLVfR0

Ghandee

There was a Japanese guy shared a house with me for six months in Melbourne before.

Thieving runt he was, notorious for joyriding/robbing from cars.

His name was Tommy Tukamota!

ArphaRima

12/1,000,000 is a bit low to call it a syndrome. Then again Stockholm syndrome probably has a lower occurrence.

Considering the Japs only get around 5 days off a year it would probably be a bit of a downer to go that far only to find out that Parisiens are w@nkers.

pickarooney

I wonder is there a Lagos Syndrome?

amacachi

fluffer wrote: »

12/1,000,000 is a bit low to call it a syndrome. Then again Stockholm syndrome probably has a lower occurrence.

Depends on if your sample is people who have been held hostage or just the general population. :pac:

Wibbs

Jerusalem madness is another one, when god botherers show up and have full on mentalism and think they're St Peter or God or some such.

hondasam

The french are nice and polite,not one bit arrogant, kinda like us Irish. Japanese people have no sense of humour.

Dyr

Hasmunch wrote: »

Is that how a japanese tourist pronounces it :pac:

The shock is because they thought they were visiting a palace...

/gets coat

For Forks Sake

pickarooney wrote: »

I wonder is there a Lagos Syndrome?

Send me 500 dollars, and my cousin the Ruling Prince of Nigeria will answer questions.

44leto

LOL
I can't help wondering do the poor Americans who finally "come home" to the mother country and discover us real Irish are not stuck in a 50s " The Quiet man" type Hollywood film suffer something similar. Top of the mornin to them anyway, its good for the national debt.

smash

The Japanese have it bad. I've heard they can't swim either...

sbsquarepants

Poor japs. Imagine if they had to work for naas county council!

And the french, on the whole, are a bunch of arrogant rude gits!

sophieblake

Wibbs wrote: »

Jerusalem madness is another one, when god botherers show up and have full on mentalism and think they're St Peter or God or some such.

Most of the guys who post on AH then

sophieblake

hondasam wrote: »

The french are nice and polite,not one bit arrogant, kinda like us Irish. Japanese people have no sense of humour.[/QUOTE]

I agree, was amazed to see words japanese and fun in the same sentence

smash

sbsquarepants wrote: »

Poor japs

Hey, that's racist... you're supposed to use a capital J

orourkeda

Watching QI were we?

orourkeda

hondasam wrote: »

The french are nice and polite,not one bit arrogant, kinda like us Irish. Japanese people have no sense of humour.

Nice generalisations

hondasam

orourkeda wrote: »

Nice generalisations

Glad you approve.

BraziliaNZ

lol, that's very interesting, never heard of it before

policarp

The Japs should take all their cars back and leave
the French with their bangers of Citroens, if that's
the effect the French have on them.

DrumSteve

Ah shure paris is great, but it's pretty much the opposite of Japan...

bnt

Yeah, France can be a disappointment to visitors with high expectations. Italy, however, can have the opposite effect. Visitors to the Sistene Chapel, or Florence, can be so overcome by the Art that they can't breath and have to lie down, at least. It can also happen in the presence of nature e.g. the "double rainbow" guy. This syndrome has a name, too: Stendhal Syndrome.

ArphaRima

Japanese people have no sense of humour

I absolutely must disagree. They have the must f*cked up one, maybe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bS_3JAGXS8

http://youtu.be/2bS_3JAGXS8

Sonics2k

hondasam wrote: »

The french are nice and polite,not one bit arrogant, kinda like us Irish. Japanese people have no sense of humour.

They do have a sense of humour, it's just insanely bizarre it makes absolutely no sense to anyone else, anywhere in the world :pac:

robbie_998

randylonghorn wrote: »

You would!! :pac:

wishful thinking and all that :pac:



although to be fair id say the japenese are look at the tower and are shocked by the size :pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac: