Indian Chronicles.

France seen from here.

The Indians are not maybe the most enthusiastic or adventurous travelers, still there are so many in the queue to climb the Eiffel Tower. Very little or no knowledge of Moliere’ language is certainly not a travelers major asset to get along well with the Parisians. The impressions for them are rather moderate. It is necessary to look at the things opposite: to Paris, one agrees well, there are more tourists than the Parisians themselves. The Indian tourists who speak very loudly, the Japanese tourists concerned about you to take a photo, the American tourists cultureless but not accent-less, the Chinese tourists who smile all the time… the Parisians have enough to leave the capital to go to live in Alaska! This plan does not always progress; they are obliged to make use of a cold shell to protect themselves. Recently, the Indian press had published a survey carried out on the inhabitants of some hundreds of metropolitan cities around the world, and Paris appeared first in the list of winners classifying the most impolite, followed by London. “It’s very relative. We cannot generalize people like this”, says Sarah who has lived in Paris for three years. “It’s necessary to stay there in order to understand the natives, that I have done. In my opinion the Parisians are neither very polite nor very impolite than the people of Mumbai. It’s true that they have a bad reputation in the world concerned to manners, but thanks to a few French words, once the ice is broken, they begin to seem very pleasant.” Because, we can continue with the clichés,” they will look up at you, while fuming their pipe, and believe themselves to be superior to the others. They are chic, elegant, and in my opinion, very laidback They are also very conservative and seem to suffer from an extreme xenophobe. The Mittal enterprise is an illustrated example!” says an 18 year old student, who as yet has never gone to France.
Ah, the stereotypes are hard to crack!

Translated article.
Compiled by Shwetabh Sinha, L'Impressions.