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Re:Paris syndrome by Udo on Sunday July 27, 2014 @01:35PM (#8093367)
I thought I expressed this in my comment, but I'm not challenging the fact that you can have a good time in Paris. That's not the issue. The issue here is people who do have a bad experience, and if that happens in what manner the city itself may contribute to it.

Your comment contains a lot of assumptions about the people visiting Paris, and since I wrote the parent, the assumptions are presumably about me as well. You are mistaken.

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Re:Paris syndrome by Mikeb85 on Sunday July 27, 2014 @04:53PM (#8093936)
People can have a bad experience anywhere. There is nothing specific to Paris.

If you showed up in NYC and started randomly accosting people in French you'd definitely have a bad experience. Yet Americans do the same in Paris and wonder why people are rude to them...

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Re:Paris syndrome by Udo on Sunday July 27, 2014 @06:24PM (#8094189)
That, too, isn't the issue. But I can't answer a comment criticizing my impression of Paris without referring to Paris, can I? Also, please refer to my first comment, I was trying to make a more general case you might agree with.
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