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Article #4583Re: Help a poor french student !!!!!!!!!!
From: Franke
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 00:00
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 00:00
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Larry Phillips wrote: > I have found the French to be rude, self-centered, xenophobic, and > in general, unpleasant. Please note that this _IS_ a generalization, > and obviously there are French people who are not this bad, and likely > those that are worse. Gee, you had a bad experience, didn't you? I found almost all the French I met in France to be extremely pleasant, polite, kind, helpful, generous, and very concerned about how I was doing and what they could do to make my stay in France as pleasant as possible. No, I wasn't staying at 5-star hotels and wasn't buying their attention. I was poor and spoke very bad French when I first got there; I was still poor when I left, but my French was better. Maybe I found the French so nice because I was in the small city of Besancon and the small village of Lemuy, but I also had wonderful experiences in Paris when I was there. Then again, maybe I found the French so nice to me because I was nice to them and did not expect to be mistreated. But then I have found that to be true in Japan, China, and Taiwan as well. Maybe you were just being given back what you gave?
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: ff20b,720a1d742bb6f611 X-Google-Attributes: gidff20b,public X-Google-Thread: 10e7bd,720a1d742bb6f611 X-Google-Attributes: gid10e7bd,public X-Google-Thread: 102ffd,720a1d742bb6f611 X-Google-Attributes: gid102ffd,public X-Google-Thread: 111b92,720a1d742bb6f611 X-Google-Attributes: gid111b92,public X-Google-Thread: 10ed3b,720a1d742bb6f611 X-Google-Attributes: gid10ed3b,public From: Franke <franke@ksts.seed.net.tw> Subject: Re: Help a poor french student !!!!!!!!!! Date: 1998/11/17 Message-ID: <3650FB2E.1C6C73AD@ksts.seed.net.tw> X-Deja-AN: 412651728 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <71d04r$jcg$1@platane.wanadoo.fr> <363B154E.B2974321@spam.com> <910450022.802605@si1-paris> <Q3wSLJA3wLR2EwYw@gvass.demon.co.uk> <3646D06F.C65B364C@club-internet.fr> <36476daf.156089587@news.rdc1.bc.wave.home.com> <72l3aq$cek$1@platane.wanadoo.fr> <364E63F5.A68DAFA8@home.com> <36500C40.118544CF@club-internet.fr> <3650E4B5.AE3490AA@home.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: SEEDNet News Service Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.usage.english,can.english,can.schoolnet.english,maus.talk.english,misc.education.language.english