Anyone Else Think French People Are All Arrogant Little Pricks, Even TP.. Heres Proof

[mcornelio]

A street vendor sells Eiffel Tower souvernirs as tourists queue in front of Notre Dame in Paris Cathedral, Aug.12th.

PARIS - Around a dozen Japanese tourists a year need psychological treatment after visiting Paris as the reality of unfriendly locals and scruffy streets clashes with their expectations, a newspaper reported on Sunday."A third of patients get better immediately, a third suffer relapses and the rest have psychoses," Yousef Mahmoudia, a psychologist at the Hotel-Dieu hospital, next to Notre Dame cathedral, told the newspaper Journal du Dimanche.

Already this year, Japan's embassy in Paris has had to repatriate at least four visitors -- including two women who believed their hotel room was being bugged and there was a plot against them.

Previous cases include a man convinced he was the French "Sun King", Louis XIV, and a woman who believed she was being attacked with microwaves, the paper cited Japanese embassy official Yoshikatsu Aoyagi as saying."Fragile travelers can lose their bearings. When the idea they have of the country meets the reality of what they discover it can provoke a crisis," psychologist Herve Benhamou told the paper.

The phenomenon, which the newspaper dubbed "Paris Syndrome", was first detailed in the psychiatric journal Nervure in 2004.

Bernard Delage of Jeunes Japon, an association that helps Japanese families settle in France, said:

"In Japanese shops, the customer is king, whereas here assistants hardly look at them ... People using public transport all look stern, and handbag snatchers increase the ill feeling."

A Japanese woman, Aimi, told the paper:

"For us, Paris is a dream city. All the French are beautiful and elegant ... And then, when they arrive, the Japanese find the French character is the complete opposite of their own."

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[boutons_]

This says more about the Japanese' romantic, mostly snobby idea of Paris, (the Japanese themselves being a stulitified, culturally oppressive, xenophobic, status-obsessed society) and nothing much about the about the French.

That the Japanese would think the rest of the world should or would treat Japenese tourists like the Japanese treat themselves is extremely naive. It's not as if the Japanese haven't been coming to France in hordes for the last 25+ years.

But what whatever minsinterpretation fits your your prejudice, go with it.

[Bob Lanier]

Probably "anyone else" does, but that's not really proof.

I do think that Japanese tourists are mostly arrogant little pricks in any country.

[TheSanityAnnex]

How do the Japanese feel in Tijuana?

[1Parker1]

Generalization and Stereotyping Forum.

[ashbeeigh]

PARIS - Around a dozen Japanese tourists a year need psychological treatment after visiting Paris as the reality of unfriendly locals and scruffy streets clashes with their expectations, a newspaper reported on Sunday."A third of patients get better immediately, a third suffer relapses and the rest have psychoses," Yousef Mahmoudia, a psychologist at the Hotel-Dieu hospital, next to Notre Dame cathedral, told the newspaper Journal du Dimanche.

Where's this guy's source? Seriously. That's lame. How does anyone relate their psychological problems directly to their visit to Paris?

[Zunni]

TP isn't French, he's Belgian.

[MaNuMaNiAc]

what the does this have to do with TP?

[ShoogarBear]

LMAO, somebody better warn these tourists not to go to New York.

[ATX Spur]

[DFW Spurs]

Japanese arrogant? French arrogant? I've lived in Japan for a year and find the Nipponese people to be very kind and generous people. Not arrogant. As for the French, well I've never been to France but most West Europeans are ass hats especially Germans. Their ing pricks to everyone, including other Germans.

[Slomo]

Nice some more generalization!

I'm sure if we go at this long enough every nation on earth will be mentioned. So let's agree the world is full of assholes and stop stupid posts like these...

[ShoogarBear]

Do they have assholes in Slovenia?

[Slomo]

SB I'm offended!

I have 3000+ posts and you still need to ask that question?

Am I on your ignore list?

[spurs_fan_in_exile]

Geez, you guys are bickering like a pack of stupid Hondurans.

[Bob Lanier]

Japanese arrogant? French arrogant? I've lived in Japan for a year and find the Nipponese people to be very kind and generous people. Not arrogant.

That's a little rosy, but not unreasonable. But Japanese tourists are annoying assholes, though - generally the worst, along with Americans and Germans.

Neither New York nor Paris deserves its reputation for hostility in my opinion ( , I know)

[johnsmith]

That's a little rosy, but not unreasonable. But Japanese tourists are annoying assholes, though - generally the worst, along with Americans and Germans.

Neither New York nor Paris deserves its reputation for hostility in my opinion ( , I know)

I hate people from Guam.

[DFW Spurs]

I hate people in general...

[Bob Lanier]

I hate people in general...

[johnsmith]

What do you call people from Guam? Are they Guamish?

[Spurminator]

Geez, you guys are bickering like a pack of stupid Hondurans.

[Kori Ellis]

That article just shows that some Japanese tourists are naive, weak-minded individuals who get upset easily or just enjoy therapy. It doesn't really say anything about the French.

It's like if people from Nebraska go to Hollywood Boulevard, expecting glamour and movie stars and check into a mental insitution because they see bums and drug addicts on the street.

[1369]

What do you call people from Guam? Are they Guamish?

I can't recall, but I think they're Guamanians or Guamites.

[spurs_fan_in_exile]

I can't recall, but I think they're Guamanians or Guamites.

Guamy Bears?

[1369]

Guamy Bears?

Those are actually a very rare tree-dwelling marsupial native to the highland forests. Nocturnal in nature, they feed on tree boring grubs and cast off Clif Bars and a sure sign they ore in the area is large deposits of scat left on the hoods of Volkswagen Cabriolets that resemble a bas-relief of Warhol's "Campbels Soup Can".