Are Europeans jealous of Americans? This dude from France he hated his trip to America because everyone here seemed autistic.
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
I doubt it. Some might be, and plenty are all too ready to adopt the most meretricous products of American commerce, or to affect American "English"; but jealous?
Anyway, one man from France - which is [i]just one[/i] of over [i]two dozen [/i]European countries - basing his assessment of an entire foreign country on merely the relatively few people he encountered there, is hardly sensible or fair. Besides, I wonder if this French bloke even knows anything about autism?
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Actually he reminds me of a fellow Briton I chanced to meet on a ferry back from France. Mechanical problems with the vessel, and heavy fog, severely delayed us so I expect many passengers were tired and a bit fractious; but this character decided he hated France! Just like that.
Why?
I think his had been a business trip not a holiday, so he'd have seen only a small area and met only a few people; but he wrote off an entire nation because its ways of life did not fit his!
I told him I was returning from a very enjoyable two-week holiday with friends from elsewhere in England (using other routes), in a rural part of the country where most of the other tourists were French. We had frequented the village cafes and shops - where we had all tried to speak French and had accommodated ourselves easily to their long lunch-breaks, one of the things that Mr. Misanthrope attacked them for; and so on. And overall we'd been made welcome.
He was not impressed and stalked off, perhaps not wanting to admit he might have misjudged France after all, to a fellow Englishman who had defended France and the French!
Anyway, one man from France - which is [i]just one[/i] of over [i]two dozen [/i]European countries - basing his assessment of an entire foreign country on merely the relatively few people he encountered there, is hardly sensible or fair. Besides, I wonder if this French bloke even knows anything about autism?
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Actually he reminds me of a fellow Briton I chanced to meet on a ferry back from France. Mechanical problems with the vessel, and heavy fog, severely delayed us so I expect many passengers were tired and a bit fractious; but this character decided he hated France! Just like that.
Why?
I think his had been a business trip not a holiday, so he'd have seen only a small area and met only a few people; but he wrote off an entire nation because its ways of life did not fit his!
I told him I was returning from a very enjoyable two-week holiday with friends from elsewhere in England (using other routes), in a rural part of the country where most of the other tourists were French. We had frequented the village cafes and shops - where we had all tried to speak French and had accommodated ourselves easily to their long lunch-breaks, one of the things that Mr. Misanthrope attacked them for; and so on. And overall we'd been made welcome.
He was not impressed and stalked off, perhaps not wanting to admit he might have misjudged France after all, to a fellow Englishman who had defended France and the French!