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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
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.
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A lot of dutch people go to some camping in france with their own caravan, loading it up to the roof with dutch food. cheese, peanut butter and whatever else they'd normally have. it's perhaps the stereotype of the dutch that germans most like to make fun of. i couldn't think of a worse holiday myself, except maybe for going to a dutch tourist resort in spain or turkey where you can order pannekoeken, fries or kroketten... in dutch of course.
the thing that makes this thread a bit pointless is that it's so overly filled with stereotypes and generalisations that it's just lame. the ridiculously one-sided pro- and anti-france opinions, people equalising one district in one city to an entire country, etc... I mean all those great political conversations you had with the French were all about Rousseau and Montesquieu, right? Because nobody would vote for someone like Chirac and Le Pen there.