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how are they better than us??
« on: October 24, 2006, 05:49:09 PM »
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061024/ap_on_re_eu/france_job_discrimination

a friend of mine who is nigerian and a attorney from london
could only get bar tending jobs in paris
she spend 5 years there
she bitch moan about america
despite that she can get fairly decent pay here and owns for the moment 3 homes here in the U.S.
why do people love france soo much
I know at least 5 ex americans who now live in france.
is it really paradise there??

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Re: how are they better than us??
« Reply #1 on: October 24, 2006, 06:15:42 PM »
I have met one French man who left France and started Farming in Georgia , he told me the taxes and government interference with farming were terrible in France.

Since the taxes and government interference in farming is fierce here France must be remarkable.



Just one guy tho , there is not really a flood of French immagrants are there?

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Re: how are they better than us??
« Reply #2 on: October 24, 2006, 06:37:47 PM »
I have been to France several times and would live there in a minute, especially in Paris if I could afford it. The French are a warm and friendly people especially outside of Paris. Paris has enough to offer to overcome Parisienes aloofness, The language is the most beautiful in the world. The countryside is varied and lovely. The food & wine are phenomenal. And French politics is considerably less fascistic than here.
The French have this style that can take either the mundane or heavenly even more special by adding something just a little finer to it.
Neither France or its people are perfect, but they are far closer than US.

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Re: how are they better than us??
« Reply #3 on: October 24, 2006, 06:44:00 PM »
I have been to France several times and would live there in a minute, especially in Paris if I could afford it.

Not that long ago you were regaling us with tales of how wealthy you are.
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Re: how are they better than us??
« Reply #4 on: October 24, 2006, 07:33:59 PM »
It's paradise no where.  But what did she love about France?  Or maybe I should ask what she doesn't like about the US?

Used to be that people with dark skin had an easier time of it in France.  Is that still true today?
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Re: how are they better than us??
« Reply #5 on: October 24, 2006, 07:35:05 PM »
I can learn to understand french but never speak it
those sluring sound are beyond my power
same goes the other direction most people I know cant pronounce ngoi
it`s a purely asian sound and people can`t help make have a l sound to it.

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Re: how are they better than us??
« Reply #6 on: October 24, 2006, 07:45:34 PM »
She tend to be annoyed about the people here more than talk about how great france is.
I tend to think it`s a refusal tp understand how things run here.
ex. she tends to give very general instruction and expects people to know exactly what she wants.
americans don`t do things that way.
we tend to be very specific to cut down on misunderstandings.
she complains we are way too polite.
ex. she doesn`t understand why we don`t laugh at fat people.
and it`s true ,if we see someone get stuck in a car due to weigh we do look away.


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Re: how are they better than us??
« Reply #7 on: October 24, 2006, 07:51:09 PM »
Sounds like a snob with big culture shock.   Also someone who isn't very kind.

PLEASE encourage her to move.  Anywhere. ;-)
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Re: how are they better than us??
« Reply #8 on: October 24, 2006, 07:57:04 PM »
oh she got fired at my job
she started all these projects and nothing got done.
in fact I was doing her job more than her.
didn`t really bother me much
she actually made me look good with her slouching all the time
but I did learn something about french culture thats cool
they can take as much as they can give.
I never had to hold back around her
nothing fazes her

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« Reply #9 on: October 24, 2006, 09:07:16 PM »
Used to be that people with dark skin had an easier time of it in France.  Is that still true today?

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Black AMERICANS havew a much better time being accepted in France than in the US. This is also true for anyone who has the same general values and culture as the French. If you want to be an obvious Moslem or Arab, then the French won't accept you as a fellow Frenchman.

In the US they discriminate based on race. In France, they discriminate based on culture.

Since anyone can act like a Frenchman a whole lot easier than they can change color, France has that advantage.

Once you are acceprted and have a decent job in France, you are seen as a regular person and will have a better time keeping your job and fitting in than in the US, where your company can be bought out in a flaxsh and you can be fired in a minute as a result of one company taking over another.

You get a much better choice of political leaders in France than in the US. In the US we got to vote for this mediocre turkey who belonged to Skull and Bones and went to Yale or this other mediocre turkey who belonged to Skull and Bones at Yale, but was a bit less warmongering.

The French have better cheese, public transportation and bread. They read more. There are far fewer religious loons in France and many, many fewer Fascist assholes.
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Re: how are they better than us??
« Reply #10 on: October 24, 2006, 09:40:29 PM »
but strangely not very likable .
I have yet met a non french european who sad anything nice about the french
ever

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Re: how are they better than us??
« Reply #11 on: October 24, 2006, 09:42:09 PM »
p.s. expect the friend who lived there that i mentioned earlier

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Re: how are they better than us??
« Reply #12 on: October 24, 2006, 09:49:20 PM »
but strangely not very likable .
I have yet met a non french european who sad anything nice about the french
ever

They are jealous.