What do you think about currently french way of life?

seb35 New member

Member since 06 October 2011

seb35New member08 February 2012 09:22:31

Hail,

I'm French and i would like to know what the others countries currently thinking about France.

I ask this question to the tourists who visited France recently and to the foreigners who are living and working in France.

Thanks

beppi Germany/Singapore Expert

Member since 08 August 2010

Germany & Singapore Expert

beppiGermany/Singapore Expert08 February 2012 17:04:34

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French are known worldwide for being culturally inward-looking and suffering from a lack of cosmopolitanism and globalisation.
Of course there are exceptions, but the average French traveller I met (abroad) spoke little English, travelled almost solely to ex-French colonies, was aghast that French isn't widely spoken there (any more),聽 and generally seemed to think of the French as superior to all others, although he/she really had no idea about these others.
Funnily, this applied even stronger to the French-speaking Canadians, but to a lesser extend to聽 French-speaking Belgians and Swiss.