I just heard that the same thing is on the rise in Ireland and that US tourists are starting to complain about occasional verbal abuse. This really is a saddening new departure because whatever about the stereotype of Irish friendliness to tourists, bad sentiment towards the US unheard of what with there being huge ties (mostly familial) to the US.
Anti-Iraq war sentiment seems to be in full swing in Europe. I've read a little that even Tony Blair is meeting resistance has to focus inward on making the case for war to his own constituency(any Brits care to comment, I'd be interested to hear? ;-) Just an observation. -----Original Message----- From: Harkins,Patrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 1:39 PM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: France? I lived in France for 8 months and saw some nasty attitudes towards tourists among the French. But I also saw ignorant American tourists become angry when the people in the country they were visiting did not speak English, and I had the impression this was a not uncommon occurence. I don't like it, but it is understandable that people develop a bad attitude when they have been burned. I guess this whole attitude thing is another manifestation of the xenophobic and racist side of the French, which it is true is present. On the other hand when we start to generalize we immediately are doing the same kind of thing, in my opinion. Like any other individual or collectivity, they have their demons to wrestle with... Patrick > -----Original Message----- > From: Beth F [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 1:29 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: France? > > > > Can you give some examples of that? And I don't mean examples of > > specific special interest groups not respecting the US > (that is what you > > mean by us, right?), but the mainstream French. > > > Parisians are pretty unpleasant to Americans travelling to France. I > realize parisians are not the total population. > > > ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-community@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
