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- I think that the attitude of a lot of Northern French people can come across as being rude, in a similar way to the apparent rudeness of Southern English people. I don't think this is really a reflection of their personality, just that they have different ways of interacting with each other. To them it is abnormal to act in a more smiling, happy manner, which can look stupid and uncool to them. I think the French people you have met in the United States are likely to have a more international way of interacting with people or are from a different area in France.
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Name : Beth, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Atheist, Age : 24, City : Edinburgh, State : NA Country : United Kingdom, Occupation : Post Graduate Student, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,These 'other' cultures that you are talking about have absolutely nothing to do with intimate contact between two consenting persons. There are very few cultures around the world where women are not treated as the property of men. This is why the young female in western cultures is protected in the manner that you are attributing to religious zealots. Of course putting a boundary between what is a child and what is an adult is hard because it is different for everyone, but I do believe that young teens should have protection of some kind from older men - who very very rarely want anything other than sex or servitude from them.User Detail :
Name : Beth, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Atheist, Age : 24, City : Edinburgh, State : NA Country : United Kingdom, Occupation : Post Graduate Student, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,Of course most French people think they are superior in education to the English, and of course Americans think they are far superior to Europeans, and of course English people think they are better-educated than the French and Americans.Having a different education system from yours doesn't make it inferior, just different. Of course there is good and bad in all of our systems, but not one more so than the other.
I must add that I have never noticed any difference in the abilities of French, American or British scientists I have encountered in the global scientific community.
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Name : Beth, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Atheist, Age : 24, City : Edinburgh, State : NA Country : United Kingdom, Occupation : Post Graduate Student, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,I understand how bad being embarrassed in public can make you feel. My brother is not disabled but throughout my childhood I was known as the sister of Daniel the weirdo. He used to wear deliberately awful-looking clothes and spoke in a voice that nobody else used. Even now as an adult he has this amazing ability to embarrass me in public. Obviously my situation is enormously different, and I was perhaps able to argue and fight with my brother in a way that you are not with your sister. I know that people will always say to you that it doesn't matter what other people think, and that the only opinions you should really care about are from your friends and family. Of course that's true, but it doesn't prevent embarrassment. The only thing that prevents embarrassment is having enormous self-confidence, something I'm getting more of the older I get.By the way, if I saw you with your 10-year-old sister while she was crying/whining, I would think how mature and responsible you are to look after your sister when she is upset. Big cars and expensive trainers aren't the only things that impress people.
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Name : Beth, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Atheist, Age : 24, City : Edinburgh, State : NA Country : United Kingdom, Occupation : Post Graduate Student, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,I don't know the relevance of tripe or beef tongue to Hispanic people. Is it some kind of term of insult, or is it a speciality dish that is traditional in Hispanic culture? Whichever it is, I think it probably depends on how the comment was said. If you were upset by it, then it was probably not said in an honestly inquiring manner.I think I may be guilty of asking similar questions (though in an honest way). I love food and am always looking for new foods to try, and I'm interested in how people eat. I would quite openly ask a French person if they liked to drink hot or cold chocolate drinks for breakfast, and I might ask a Scotish person if they liked porridge. I have also asked an Indian friend if they ate curry for breakfast - because when on holiday in India that is what people did. These are stereotypes, but I don't really expect people to always eat their national dishes. For my part, these questions are really about enjoying people's differences, not criticizing them.
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Name : Beth, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Atheist, Age : 24, City : Edinburgh, State : NA Country : United Kingdom, Occupation : Post Graduate Student, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,I know there are Christians who believe that non-Christians will burn in hell. However, the majority of Christians I have met are not that extreme. I am an atheist and my boyfriend is Catholic, and we have never encountered any disapproval in the United States. Maybe it's because we are foreigners, but we do have similar fanatics in the United Kingdom. To me they seem to be a very small (but vocal) number of Christians.User Detail :
Name : Beth, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Atheist, Age : 24, City : Edinburgh, State : NA Country : United Kingdom, Occupation : Post Graduate Student, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,
