• crispy_kilt@feddit.de
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    9 months ago

    Many people claim the French are rude which is not my experience at all.

    99.9% of this is from US-americans who visit just Paris and speak very loud US-english to everyone. The Parisians are not as nice as the rest of France and no one appreciates an ignorant tourist speaking loud US-english into one’s face as if it were a walmart in Texas or something.

    In general the French are nice people.

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      9 months ago

      I think it’s a power-thing. Some Americans follow the ‘customer is always right’ thinking and expect staff to be servile. But my experience in Europe is that when you interact with a waiter or a shop assistant you’re interacting with an equal who happens to be serving you at that moment, and who also expects a certain something from you.

      I still remember a waiter who was very disappointed in me because I didn’t know which wine I wanted to have with my fish 😂 Sorry, Danes don’t know much about wine. Anyway, the only time I’ve encountered rude staff was in Belgium and only once or twice - and probably just because we seemed impatient.