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Savvysavz  +  136938 Tue, 13 Sep 05 01:02 PM

Hi everyone!

I read a few threads about the United States and Germany and learnt really interesting things from all of you in this forum. Now it is my turn to come up with the same question about France. What is your impression about French people and French culture ( or French anything for that matter...)?

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Waïti  +  137013 Tue, 13 Sep 05 04:37 PM

All I know about them French is that they are just a bunch of arrogant grousers that keep opening their cheese-smelling mouths to brag about the great things they've invented and which amount to a handful of what they hold for major culinary breakthroughs : french fries, french bread and french vanilla.
And it's obvious the latest would even exist without them...

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Robyn Terri  +  137094 Wed, 14 Sep 05 12:54 AM
I would love to go to France on the way to somewhere else, to see the famous art and architecture but apart from that I am not very interested. Everyone who has been there tells me the people are arrogant, the city dirty and that todays culture is morally messy.
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Savvysavz, 4 yr 74 days ago

So sad... nobody has anything nice to tell about France..Sad [:(]

Do I sound arrogant?

Waïti  +  137235 Wed, 14 Sep 05 09:59 AM

No but you don't sound french either...
And if you are then you must be the exception to the rule...

I don't know about the whole France but as for Paris... it would definitely love Paris... if it weren't for these damn Parisians.

You don't happen to be from Paris, do you ? Tell us about Pondicherry which was a coastal settlement under french influence once but fortunately escaped it some time ago...
Waïti
nona the brit  +  137236 Wed, 14 Sep 05 10:00 AM

Waiti - mind your manners please.

I think that France is a beautiful country and although I've only zipped through it a couple of times so far, I'd like to go and visit properly one day.

French people I have met have always been perfectly charming.
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Anonymous, 4 yr 74 days ago

Waiti,

Why  do you have so much hatred towards  French? Have you ever been to France at all...?

One element from what you said above used to be true: French people in the oldern days used to be grumpy. That slowly changed (and still changing) because some people (like you) started complaining that the French do not have manners.Our generation is very much cosmopolitan, some French people settle in Britain, others in America, many others in India. You can practically find a French in almost any country, happily settled there for the rest of his life.

One good example is Pondicherry. It is situated in the coastal region of South India. Apart from Indians, the next majority of people living here are French and Germans ( little bit of Italians too). Waiti, you will be surprised to note that the French play a vast role in the economy of Pondicherry and that Indians and French get along very well.Many French people decided to permanantly settle here (like my father) and start their own business in arts, handicrafts to machinery. As a result we have our own French school here which is maintained by the Govt of France. Teachers mainly come from France but also India (obviously), Germany, Spain and England. Our school emphasies importance in learning (British) English, which is one reason I speak English today. Our French teachers are well aware that if we want to survive in tommorow's world, we definitely need to be good enough in English.

So you can see that French people are not all that bad!

Anonymous, 4 yr 74 days ago

Thank you Nona! You should come down and visit Pondicherry too, sometime.

Savvy

Savvysavz, 4 yr 74 days ago

Thank you Nona! You should visit Pondicherry too sometime!

Savvy

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