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From: abc@brl-sem.ARPA (Brint Cooper )
Newsgroups: net.travel
Subject: Re:  Paris, France
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Date: Mon, 18-Nov-85 17:35:42 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 18 17:35:42 1985
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Lots of misinformation about France has appeared here recently.  My
experience is that you'll find what you expect.  If you make a
reasonable attempt to make yourself understood, French people will meet
you more than halfway.  Remember, in France as in most European
countries, nearly everyone born since 1945 has studied English for
several years.

Further, I found the French to be warm and friendly and generally not
anti-American.  

Now I know Americans who will argue both these points.  These are the
same Americans who resent French nationalistic feelings by French people
but who feel that Americans should be more "patriotic!"  I suppose they
want the French to bow and scrape forever because of WW II, not
realizing that we had our own axe to grind.

Finally, I found proportionately more English-speaking folk in
Paris than in the rural southwest, no doubt because Paris has a more
international transient population.  


Brint Cooper

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