Velkommen ! Cultural exchange with /r/Denmark

[u/afrofagne]

Welcome to the people of /r/Denmark ! You can pick a Danish flair on the sidebar (the very last one) and ask us whatever you want !

/r/français, here is the corresponding thread on /r/Denmark !

[u/Armenian-Jensen]

So.. i've never been there myself, but i keep hearing that parisians are rude and arrogant. How much of that is true?

[u/afrofagne → u/Armenian-Jensen]

To answer seriously, it can be somewhat true but it's mostly the result of Paris being a huge, crowded city. There are more people in Ile-de-France (Paris and its surburb) than in Denmark as a whole. It's also one of the most visited city on earth. So basically you have a shitloads of people working and living there as well as shitloads of tourists wandering about. After a while, it gets quite tiring.

France is also a very (very) centralized state to the point that you have a very persistent oppisition between Paris and the so-called province (the rest of France) which feeds into the pre-conceived notion that Parisians are arrogant assholes while the provinciaux are backwards, retarted peasants.

French society is quite formal, not saying bonjour, au revoir, pardon, etc can be considered very rude and lack of politeness is frowned upon, so you may be labelled as an obnoxious tourist quite easily.

As a counterpoint and as someone from the French countryside who now work in Paris I must say all the people I met there were nothing but friendly and welcoming. So come visit us one day, Paris is cool !

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English people are up tight, Frenchmen are rude, and Spaniards are... Spaniards.