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Originally Posted by pokkeherrie

But a place where they're treating people based on the language they speak doesn't sound like it ever could be the greatest city in the world, right?

Anyway, the younger generation of Parisians has been very willing to conversate in English to me actually. Though of course I experienced as well that you instantly win a lot of sympathy when trying to conversate in broken French with a heavy foreign accent. But who wouldn't appreciate that?

well maybe. but france gets nearly 80 million visitors every year. not sure how many million flood paris. say 10. 10 million. and to they respect your customs, speak your language, and try not to be obnoxious? no. so parisians justifiably get fed up from the fucking tourists demanding macdonalds and expecting than EVERYONE speaks their language. the australians get plastered in the plazas, the americans make faces at the food, i don't know what the english do, i suppose they are more polite than everybody else but of all the english people i've met (and i've met quite a few) none of them have ever bothered to speak a foreign language.

so i understand how parisians are FED UP with the hordes of tourists. not just english tourists, mind you-- my friends in provence bitched mostly about the dutch, who drive their trailers in the summer and spend the season there don't buy a single thing, carting every single thing from their own country and leaving only trash.

i felt the same every summer while living in d.c., the hordes of ugly pink tourists making a mess of everything in what i felt was MY town.

now if you go to a place, try to respect the customs, behave politely and make an attempt to speak their language, you get treated well everywhere.

anyway i just came to say that, goodnight.