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Are Parisians really rude people?

  • 14-09-2012 01:07PM
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    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,162 ✭✭✭Augmerson


    Came across this article on BBC's website.
    BBC wrote:
    A dozen or so Japanese tourists a year have to be repatriated from the French capital, after falling prey to what's become known as "Paris syndrome".

    That is what some polite Japanese tourists suffer when they discover that Parisians can be rude or the city does not meet their expectations.

    The experience can apparently be too stressful for some and they suffer a psychiatric breakdown.

    Around a million Japanese travel to France every year.

    Many of the visitors come with a deeply romantic vision of Paris - the cobbled streets, as seen in the film Amelie, the beauty of French women or the high culture and art at the Louvre.

    The reality can come as a shock.

    An encounter with a rude taxi driver, or a Parisian waiter who shouts at customers who cannot speak fluent French, might be laughed off by those from other Western cultures.

    But for the Japanese - used to a more polite and helpful society in which voices are rarely raised in anger - the experience of their dream city turning into a nightmare can simply be too much.

    This year alone, the Japanese embassy in Paris has had to repatriate four people with a doctor or nurse on board the plane to help them get over the shock.

    An encounter with a rude Parisian can be a shocking experience
    They were suffering from "Paris syndrome".

    It was a Japanese psychiatrist working in France, Professor Hiroaki Ota, who first identified the syndrome some 20 years ago.

    On average, up to 12 Japanese tourists a year fall victim to it, mainly women in their 30s with high expectations of what may be their first trip abroad.

    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.

    I've heard it before from a few people that Parisians are known for their rudeness. Maybe this article says more about Japanese culture and society than the Parisians. Cities are a lot more impersonal, so many people in small places, people naturally get edgy and pissed off very easy. Anyway, the real for this thread is....



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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    This thread while it lasts, is going to be fun!

    Popcorn anyone?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    Parisians are fine.

    Jim Carey's a knob end though. The man is terminally unfunny.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭davet82


    what a great article, bleedin japenese, mad bunch of lads :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 420 ✭✭Green Diesel


    Rude? Not really, not as friendly as people from the south in my experience, but isn't that the case in most cities?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,591 ✭✭✭Tristram


    Definitely says more about the visitors than the hosts!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    Thinly veiled Katie Middleton and her boobs thread.

    :pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,336 ✭✭✭wendell borton


    Your just racist, it's part of their culture. :p :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,263 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    It's probably no worse than the céad míle fáilte that people never get when they arrive here.










    :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    A parisian metro ticket clerk woman once screamed her head off at me when i asked her to change the ticket she had just given literally 30 seconds beforehand becuase it wouldn't open the barriers, i had to spend the week jumping over them!
    So fúck them all:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25 Nuts!


    Augmerson wrote: »
    Came across this article on BBC's website.
    BBC wrote:
    A dozen or so Japanese tourists a year have to be repatriated from the French capital, after falling prey to what's become known as "Paris syndrome".

    That is what some polite Japanese tourists suffer when they discover that Parisians can be rude or the city does not meet their expectations.

    The experience can apparently be too stressful for some and they suffer a psychiatric breakdown.

    Around a million Japanese travel to France every year.

    Many of the visitors come with a deeply romantic vision of Paris - the cobbled streets, as seen in the film Amelie, the beauty of French women or the high culture and art at the Louvre.

    The reality can come as a shock.

    An encounter with a rude taxi driver, or a Parisian waiter who shouts at customers who cannot speak fluent French, might be laughed off by those from other Western cultures.

    But for the Japanese - used to a more polite and helpful society in which voices are rarely raised in anger - the experience of their dream city turning into a nightmare can simply be too much.

    This year alone, the Japanese embassy in Paris has had to repatriate four people with a doctor or nurse on board the plane to help them get over the shock.

    An encounter with a rude Parisian can be a shocking experience
    They were suffering from "Paris syndrome".

    It was a Japanese psychiatrist working in France, Professor Hiroaki Ota, who first identified the syndrome some 20 years ago.

    On average, up to 12 Japanese tourists a year fall victim to it, mainly women in their 30s with high expectations of what may be their first trip abroad.

    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.

    I've heard it before from a few people that Parisians are known for their rudeness. Maybe this article says more about Japanese culture and society than the Parisians. Cities are a lot more impersonal, so many people in small places, people naturally get edgy and pissed off very easy. Anyway, the real for this thread is....


    Most Parisians are fine in my experience. People are people the world over.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Nuts! wrote: »
    ...People are people the world over.
    Aaa up!

    NEWSFLASH! :D

    ...And this is coming from someone that is Nuts!

    There's hope in the world yet! :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,263 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    My daughter and her pals went there on a school trip and were told by one miserable fecker (completely out of the blue) to "fuck off home you English bastards". The fact that they weren't English didn't seem to matter.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 514 ✭✭✭alphabeat


    Parisians are fine.

    Jim Carey's a knob end though. The man is terminally unfunny.


    seriously ?

    hes a lot funnier than you .


  • Posts: 25,611 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I just don't like how they pretend that they can't speak English.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,671 ✭✭✭BraziliaNZ


    The French are nice I think. The Japs are weirdos, no one speaks to each other on the subways, they all seem to look at the ground, they almost completely ignore foreigners. So this does not surprise me!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,263 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    I just don't like how they pretend that they can't speak English.

    I think they do that so that they can be enraged when they overhear conversations about what people think of the French. They seem to get off on being angry.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,162 ✭✭✭Augmerson


    BraziliaNZ wrote: »
    The French are nice I think. The Japs are weirdos, no one speaks to each other on the subways, they all seem to look at the ground, they almost completely ignore foreigners. So this does not surprise me!

    I've rarely seen, unless people knew each other, instances of passengers on public transport in any major city I've visited, talking to each other. The Japanese are a bit out there though, I'll give you that.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    alphabeat wrote: »
    seriously ?

    hes a lot funnier than you .

    Someone piss in your cornflakes again?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    la lune ressemble à un grand fromage


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,075 ✭✭✭✭Kintarō Hattori


    I was in Paris 2-3 years ago for the first time. Before heading over I was rather nervous as I don't speak a word of French and they are of course famously rude.

    Nothing could have been further from the truth. I found them very welcoming and polite, so I'm not sure where this stereotype comes from. I've heard it said that outside Paris people are rude but not having been anywhere else in France I can't say.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,798 ✭✭✭goose2005


    *shrug*


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 921 ✭✭✭Border-Rat


    I've always had nothing but positive experiences with the French. They like the Irish.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,590 ✭✭✭ahnowbrowncow


    Nothing could have been further from the truth. I found them very welcoming and polite, so I'm not sure where this stereotype comes from.

    I'm sure the stereotype didn't come from nowhere, just because you didn't experience it doesn't mean it's not true


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21 Benji1974


    To any city or town dweller the world over, the most annoying people are tourists. They dodder and move slowly, take up lots of space and generally get in the way. It’s because they are on holiday, lack of awareness and essentially selfish behaviour.

    At least they’re honest about in Paris and most Western cities. Get in their way over there and they’ll tell you to move or even push you of the way. Unlike in third world countries (and oddly, Ireland too) you have to be seen to be nice to tourists and treat them like royalty.



    I suppose it’s because our economy would collapse and we’d all starve to death without tourist revenue which comprises 95% of our income.


    Anyway .. In most cases where a tourist claims locals are rude you'll find it was their fault by not having the basic manners to ask the introductory question 'do you speak English?' in the local lingo or that their sense and expectation of entitlement weren't met.


  • Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Aylin Better Dude


    I thought it said Persians


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,263 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Benji1974 wrote: »
    To any city or town dweller the world over, the most annoying people are tourists. They dodder and move slowly, take up lots of space and generally get in the way. It’s because they are on holiday, lack of awareness and essentially selfish behaviour.

    At least they’re honest about in Paris and most Western cities. Get in their way over there and they’ll tell you to move or even push you of the way. Unlike in third world countries (and oddly, Ireland too) you have to be seen to be nice to tourists and treat them like royalty.



    I suppose it’s because our economy would collapse and we’d all starve to death without tourist revenue which comprises 95% of our income.


    Anyway .. In most cases where a tourist claims locals are rude you'll find it was their fault by not having the basic manners to ask the introductory question 'do you speak English?' in the local lingo or that their sense and expectation of entitlement weren't met.

    I think that calculation is 150% wrong.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,327 ✭✭✭Sykk


    Jim Carey's a knob end though. The man is terminally unfunny.

    How dare you! :mad:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 194 ✭✭Elvis_Presley


    Complete bollox, sure there's some rude people but there's lots of rude people everywhere you go.

    I spend about 10 weeks a year in France, speak French, have a French girlfriend and many French friends. In my experience the French are very friendly, welcoming and open. I've experienced far better hospitality than in Ireland and met many very generous and kind people there.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,057 ✭✭✭✭Francie Barrett


    Paris is the most overrated city in the world.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    BraziliaNZ wrote: »
    The French are nice I think. The Japs are weirdos, no one speaks to each other on the subways..

    That's a pretty poor measurement to use, maybe try travelling on the London Underground or the New York Subway for awhile. Because I guarantee you won't find any chatterboxes sitting beside you.


    Breaking News: People who don't talk to complete strangers while using public transportation, are officially declared weirdos.


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