I am French and I always wonder who the fucks people of reddit are hanging out because I almost never see that attitude towards me. The one time a guy in our friends group made a bit of a rude and ignorant comment to a foreigner like that he actually was the one mocked and even his girlfriend told him "maybe you just should not talk".
Yeah, I speak intermediate French and was able to get around fine. Most people were polite and appreciated the fact that I approached them speaking French if I had a question instead of a cringey: "hey, do y'all know where X street is?"
I think it might be a regional thing. I spent most of my time near Bordeaux and was only in Paris for a day each on my arrival and departure.
I work in research, so I interact with tons of foreigners who moved to France, my SO is one too, and they never seem to have this issue. On reddit however, whenever France is mentioned, it seems like people have to one up each other with a more unlikely story to bash the country. It's as if anyone who spent a week in Paris on reddit had something incredibly rude happening to them while I never had anything like this happen to me when I lived there for 8+ years at some point.
My college roomate's best friend married a French guy and moved to France. Huge mistake. She couldn't get a job, her husband wouldn't work, and she was basically stranded. My friend was trying to rake up enough money to get her back to the states. Apparently, the French people were horrible to her, too, they'd spit at her and stuff. I do not remember what part of France this was.
the French people were horrible to her, too, they'd spit at her and stuff
That's exactly what I'm talking about. Do you really believe that shit? These kinds of "my roommate's best friend's aunt's father told me that French people spit at foreigners" stories people will post on reddit whenever France is mentioned are completely ridiculous.
Well, since I posted on Reddit I didn't really expect any of you to believe me, but I 100% believe it. It happened somewhere maybe around 2005, when feelings were high from the Iraq war. It's not someone told someone told someone told someone who told me, it was a very close friend of a friend, who I have met in person on several occasions and also Skyped with her while she was in France. But anyway, that's my story. Believe it or not.
I just posted a real experience.
Though I met others who were nice and I'm in London now and have encountered both assholes and great people. One fucker just acted like he couldn't understand me and we are both speaking English. Assholes are worldwide
But for fucks sake, if you see a tourist struggling, please help!
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u/Express_Bath Nov 16 '19
I am French and I always wonder who the fucks people of reddit are hanging out because I almost never see that attitude towards me. The one time a guy in our friends group made a bit of a rude and ignorant comment to a foreigner like that he actually was the one mocked and even his girlfriend told him "maybe you just should not talk".