City of Love, Or City of Discrimination & Intolerance?

[...] It’s not hard to say. Sometime I say it to myself just for the heck of it. But it was so hard to get into the habit, when I first moved here, of singing it out every time I entered a bakery or a fruit shop. Chris at ParisLogue explains how crucial it is to get used to uttering the french version of “‘Sup?”: Talk to a Parisian over dinner and in one breath he will adamantly oppose Le Pen and the anti-immigration policies of the National Front and in the second breath he will complain about the Asian and Arab immigrants failure to s’integrer into French life. Here was one complaint overheard, “When the Chinese come into my friend’s shop, they never bother to say, “bonjour”. They just walk in, look around, and walk out again. That’s very rude.” It doesn’t take much to receive that unwanted label: “mal-eleve” or badly brought up. Walking into a shop without aknowledging the person behind the counter is about the worst thing you can do in France. In smaller shops, it is almost the same as walking into someone’s private home. [...]

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Thanks Caitlyn for your comment. Is discrimination the worst thing you can do to people? Personally, I’d say no, not the worst, torture, mutilation and death probably would get first billing in the ‘worst you can do’ but discrimination is probably the first step down that road of no return. Tell your friend to check out the bestselling book BLINK. That’s one of the most interesting books I’d read recently about discrimination. Most of us have been discriminated against in one way another in our lives - even if it’s by being the older or younger sibling - too young, too old, or just ‘different’. It’s all a matter of degree and pervasiveness. Good luck to your friend with the project. Hope she gets an A.

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