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What do visitors expect Paris to be like? What do they find instead? The article is missing this critical piece of information.
by jkuria 7y ago
What do visitors expect Paris to be like? What do they find instead? The article is missing this critical piece of information.
- nyolfen 7y ago> Many of the visitors come with a deeply romantic vision of Paris - the cobbled streets, as seen in the film Amelie, the beauty of French women or the high culture and art at the Louvre. > The reality can come as a shock. > An encounter with a rude taxi driver, or a Parisian waiter who shouts at customers who cannot speak fluent French, might be laughed off by those from other Western cultures. > But for the Japanese - used to a more polite and helpful society in which voices are rarely raised in anger - the experience of their dream city turning into a nightmare can simply be too much. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6197921.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6197921.stm
- Nightshaxx 7y agoIt specifically says towards the bottom that in Japanese magazines, they depict Paris as being filled with people so thin they look like stick figures and that only wear high class fashion.
- tayo42 7y agoIdk about high class fashion, but I thought everyone in Paris dressed surprisingly nice. Scarves everywhere lol. Even people wearing sweatpants seemed put together with planned outfits.
- kjlhlwkejthoiu 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Paris https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Paris
- deogeo 7y ago> 20 per cent of people living in the city of Paris are immigrants and 41.3 per cent of people under 20 have at least one immigrant parent. Wow - that's a very fast demographic change.
- narag 7y agoCapitals tend to attrack most inmigration. As an anecdote, my son's primary class in Madrid had more than a third of inmigrant parents, including Russia, Iran, South America (most) and Morocco. The question, at least for me, is not where you come from, but how well can you integrate. Latins have it easier because we share the language.
- douglasmurray12 7y agoNot all capitals - it is a question of policy. Tokyo, for instance, seems to be very different.
- narag 7y agoInteresting. So in Japan people inmigrate more uniformly? In Spain is just a matter of opportunities. It's easier to find a job in big cities.
- jacobush 7y agoNah, as far as I know there is no such policy: https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-data/h00398/the-changing-face-of-tokyo-one-in-eight-shinjuku-residents-are-foreign-nationals.html https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-data/h00398/the-changing-fac...
- douglasmurray12 7y ago12% in the most foreign-populated area still seems very low by European standards. Given that a lot of the foreigners are Chinese and Korean, to the European eye it looks even more homogeneous than that. Seine-Saint-Denis, for comparison, had 27% residents born outside Metropolitan France, and that was in 1999. Marseille is 25% muslim.
- jacobush 7y ago- "Capitals tend to attrack [sic] most inmigration." - "Not all capitals - it is a question of policy." - "Interesting. So in Japan people inmigrate [sic] more uniformly?" ... then you don't answer but proceed to compare capitals of the world to each other. I thought we were comparing countryside immigration to capitals vs to the rest of the country. Not between countries.
- unreal37 7y agoI guess it's expected to be self-evident. Expectation of Paris: "the city of light", "the city of love", the home of iconic structures such as the Eiffel Tower, home of fashion, moulin rouge Reality of Paris: construction, traffic, fences, security, getting scammed on the street... a normal city
- SlowRobotAhead 7y agoBut the food is pretty great.