...so we had different experiences. I have vivid memories of being humiliated (well, my dad anyway - i was 12 at the time) in a resteraunt for trying to order something off the menu, made fun of by the waiter for not knowing the french money and apparently not tipping enough - at which point, surprise, the fuckin waiter knew how to speak english the entire time.
Every experience i recall from France is vastly different from every other country i remember visiting during my years there. They fit the bill of everything i had ever heard about them - rude, arrogant assholes.
From what i've seen Americans in general are curious when they see foreigners. Want to know where they are from, what it's like there, what brought them over there.
But whatever, we saw different things. I certainly won't argue that your experience has no relation to mine, I just remember the French taking pleasure in humiliating those "trying to speak their language."
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