Could you tell me what you think the “surprise” is, exactly? I don’t quite get it, I need you to explicitly say what you mean.
i’m afraid you’ll have to ask your asian friends visiting the country for the first time after they took the RER from the airport to Paris (but you’ll have to make them feel like they won’t get sued for giving their impression, first)
You're still doing exactly what I asked you not to do. What exactly is the "great surprise" that you mentioned? What exactly is it that you think my "asian friends" are going to see? Come on, spit it out, have the courage to own your opinions. And if it turns out that your opinion is something that would get you banned from HN for sharing, then maybe you should consider refraining from invoking that opinion via dog whistles and thinly veiled insinuations too.
If you’re truely interested in my opinion on the situation in france just read my other comments in the thread.
But somehow i doubt you are. Your tone seem to suggest you’re rather the kind of person eager to call anyone a racist every time cultural gaps or even identity in general is mentioned. I’m not sure you realize it, but you’re the exact mirror image of people from the extreme right that blame race for every trouble in the country.
You may want to say it’s perfectly « normal », because that’s actually what the situation is now indeed. But for every single tourist i know, as well as for every people that has known Paris before the 1980s , it comes as a great surprise.