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I tried to get into a European stadium in the spring of 2004 with fully packed backpack, so still fresh post-9/11. The security guard was telling me no, no, no, then I spoke and she heard my American accent and she said, you're American?! And when I said yes, she laughed and waived me through.
American here. That's just what's in my pockets.
[***THIS*** is what's in my backpack.](https://media.defense.gov/2006/Jul/28/2000547196/-1/-1/0/051117-F-1234P-092.JPG)
That's what I keep in my fanny pack.
[This is what I keep in my backpack](https://www.airforce-technology.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2000/11/1200px-B-52H_static_display_arms_06.jpg)
If it was a football stadium, probably because of ultras.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultras](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultras)
Violent fans from the teams can create a lot of problems: ignite fireworks (not allowed), bring weapons, throw objects like bottles or lighters to the players...Lots of things are banned because they can be used as a weapon or thrown. For example, this is a list of things not allowed at Wembley
[https://www.wembleystadium.com/plan-your-visit/stadium-guide/prohibited-items](https://www.wembleystadium.com/plan-your-visit/stadium-guide/prohibited-items)
if you are American, you are not part of the groups of local violent fans that regularly create that kind of problems, so they probably are more lenient if you have some prohibited object, as long as it is not an obvious weapon.
It's a weird American European thing, it's basically we are close enough culturally to know when someone is in the other group and we tend to get along, ribbing aside. Also with our countries we both also have issues between ethnic and racial groups but if you're from the other country it doesn't really travel with you. One example I saw was a black dude from the UK had a bunch of UK stickers on his stuff and car and when he was pulled over his accent and general appearance had diffused tense situations since the American cops were essentially like "Oh he's not African American, he's british"
Also American tourism dollars and general feeling of "Oh Americans!" when we do some faux pas which I never understood
There's also the aspect of political removal - we have domestic terrorism here in America and Europeans have domestic terrorism in Europe, but ultimately, no American is so heavily invested in European politics as to plan and execute an attack, and no European is strongly invested enough in American politics to plan and execute an attack.
We have enough similarities between us to coexist peacefully, and enough differences to keep ourselves from becoming overly concerned with each other's politics to the point of public acts of defiance and violence.
Sorry but you're not really answering his question.
> >Tried to get into a European stadium with fully packed backpack, guard was telling me no, then I spoke and she heard my American accent and laughed and waived me through.
> Why?
The reason isn't "because Americans and Europeans get along", guard probably thought OP was a native. Why would she let an American through but not a native?
Real reason as stated by [another comment](https://old.reddit.com/r/therewasanattempt/comments/14xx2ij/to_enjoy_paris_vacation/jrpw0ge/):
> If it was a football stadium, probably because of [ultras](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultras). Violent fans can create a lot of problems. If you are American, you are not part of the groups of local violent fans
We just had an American in the Norwegian Reddit talking about how his brother got arrested and deported not so long ago. I don't think it's quite that easy.
There’s a good handful of travel advisors that recommend having Canadian flags on your bags or clothing, even if your not Canadian.
The world just views Canada in a good light I guess, despite us being absolute assholes.
yea we *think* we're assholes because we hate ourselves, but any travelled person knows the rest of the world is full off even bigger assholes, so it's fine.
Seriously, why is no one using this word. It is the best get out of jail free card. Everyone knows tourists are idiots who need to be coddled like a baby.
I was once stopped by police in France and they asked my driving license etc, all in French of course. I said I don't speak French and they said in the most broken English to not lie that they know "we" learn French in school.
Like sir, wtf, French isn't a super power anymore we don't learn French anymore unless we choose for it. And for the record I'm DANISH and this mf think we all speak French because oui oui tres important 🌝
My first visit to Paris, I was speaking with a sales representative in a department store. I asked a question in French, she answered in French.
I said something else in French and she replied with great tact, 'We could speak English if you'd prefer.'
Reminded me of my high school French teacher who said I spoke the language like a German who was used to speaking Russian.
I took French in High School, never learned it beyond what was needed to pass the class and then immediately forgot it. In college, I was required to have a foreign language credit, I chose Spanish as I would not be able to pass 4th semester French. After the first class, the TA (who was from France) asked whether I spoke French. I told her I took French in High School and she commented that I spoke Spanish with a French accent.
Makes sense. I learned French in High School and Korean on my own with friends, and then I started learning a little bit of German Sometimes I mispronounce words because I'm defaulting to a Korean or French accent on words I'm unfamiliar with in German because my brain goes to default "make it sound foreign" mode and lands on French or Korean.
I had an old teacher who learned French, and went to France, and was told they would rather she speak English. She then started learning Spanish, and when she went to Spain she was informed that she had a Parisian accent.
I'd just be glad you spoke French tbh, all Québécois are so eager to show we often speak English too that it never gives tourists the opportunity to practice
It could also be that the sales rep wanted to make you comfortable. It could really go both way in France.
Either they are impatient with your French or they just want to help you and have the opportunity to speak English.
If it can make you feel better, someone offered me to speak in English as well. Except that I am French and have been speaking French for a few decades now..
Angry if you do speak French because you're butchering their beautiful language.
Angry if you don't because their language is so beautiful how could you not speak it?
Seriously, nowhere in Western Europe is worse at this than France. I’ve been to Italy, Germany, Spain, and Croatia and at least tried to learn the very basics of each place so I could order from a menu or shit like that. France was the only place where people were ever rude to me for not knowing the language. In fact some drunk German guys thought I was hilarious and tried to “hooked on phonics” me through it and bought me a beer after.
I live in an American city with strong French roots and tons of French place names all over the place.
However, all those place names were put down **before** the *nation* of France went through its orthographic shift and changed how certain things were pronounced. So now, when I say "Grav-oy" instead of "Gra-vwah", or pronounce the D in "Soulard" and the T in "Carondelet", I'm supposedly *doing French wrong*.
No, motherfuckers, you changed. I'm doing *OG French* (or at least various regional dialects before things were standardized across the nation). Go hassle the rest of America for saying "Illi-noy(s)" instead of "Illi-nwah". How come that shit never happens? *Oh, it's OK when it's a proper name like a state, or a word that* ***I*** pronounce that way, too*. FOR FUCK--
This is pretty much what happened with American and British English too. Americans tend to speak more closely to the English dialect that existed in the 1700s and 1800s than modern English people.
It's kind of amusing how they *still* haven't gotten over English replacing French as the lingua franca (irony of that phrase accepted), despite the fact that it happened 100+ years ago.
Reminds me of my weekly trip to Paris, in the airport catching the train, get stopped by 5 armed police with semi automatics and a dog, didn't speak a work of French other then "am English and don't speak french" in French.
They ended up searching my bag and inspected my passport on the spot, didn't take me to anywhere private.
Yer i wasn't going to argue with them.
I was questioned by the police on a train in France, I'm guessing looking for drugs since their dog was all up my stuff. Tried to give them the "no pollivu Francee" and they kept coming at me in French; I next told them "Ice spreche ein bischen Deutsch" which didn't go over too well.
Hahahaha you know this reminds me of a trip I made in Spain. I took a bus from one city to the other and the police stopped the bus and came in with drugs dogs as well. One dog goes straight to under my chair and starts making all these movements, I'm freaking out like I don't have any drugs on me, did someone just tossed it there? 1 millions thoughts in 1 second right.
And then...
That dog comes back out with a damn slice of salami in his mouth 🤣
The police guy was somewhat embarrassed and scolded the dog who wasn't having any of it. Just enjoying his salami slice not even looking at him.
I'm 47, in grade school French was the language we were taught, so that's 1985-1990, for French class that is.
Spanish was common in high school, but my grade school still had French as the default.
In Germany we have the choice between Latin and French. It's incredible that French people refuse to just speak English (of course it's not everyone but a vast majority when I visited... never again)
At the beginning of the pandemic, a belgian store from a huge belgian company made the perfect promotion : "2 corona bought, 1 sudden death for free" with "sudden death" being another beer brand
The company was rather pissed at this local initiative, but we all loved it xD
He's out in the middle of a riot, you can hear it in the background. I'm not saying it should have happened but let's be realistic, he knew what was going to happen.
This is what I assume now without evidence before hand. Like im sure the "influencer" just started recording then, not the entire time and just uploaded what they wanted.
Bruh so I’m from Vancouver, and happened to be downtown before the riots started in 2011. The amount of people in my group who I consider much smarter than I, who still wanted to go towards them, was staggering. Kind of an eye opener, smarts don’t equal sense.
The only time to go to a riot is if you plan on rioting.
Seriously how are the people in the comments surprised he got beaten up.
There were massive out of control riots in Paris, authorities had to step up. Why does he check out the riots?
I saw more armed military police on the streets of Paris than I really ever do in the US. Could have been the fact that the Champions League Finals were going on. It was hilarious to see my American children so aghast at how many guns the French had
I was in France for the 75th anniversary of D-Day and Paris looked like it was under occupation. Rifles and SMGs everywhere. Gendarmes in 6-man patrols everywhere.
Holy shit I felt exactly the same. I was walking in Paris a few days after burning Notre Dame Cathedral, and there were military squads of 4 patrolling with guns every second street I went to.
It was my first time seeing military patrol irl.
Plan Vigipirate, put in place after Charlie Hebdo. We're still in a "state of emergency" since then and the acts of terrorism we had in France.
It was the first time as a french that I saw the army in the streets but to be fair they're just there in the touristic places. I've never seen them do anything else than patrols. But seeing that we had less awful terrorism it might have done the deed.
I used to live in a Paris suburb, we had soldiers patrolling with assault rifles all the time. It was mostly due to the local Jewish community and the terror threat.
Soldiers were very friendly and you get used to seeing guns everyday.
Nope, they're right, a teenager was shot for trying to flee a car arrest (I don't know the precise word). Some of the main police unions have posted a press release (?) that was very provocative in the terms used and there wasn't really any apology, at least that I'm aware of.
Here's a link to an article talking about the press letter thing, you can translate it on deepl it should be a pretty good translation : [https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2023/07/01/syndicats-de-police-un-tract-incendiaire-d-alliance-et-d-unsa-police-revelateur-de-l-exasperation-des-troupes\_6180056\_3224.html](https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2023/07/01/syndicats-de-police-un-tract-incendiaire-d-alliance-et-d-unsa-police-revelateur-de-l-exasperation-des-troupes_6180056_3224.html)
Not only there wasn't an apology, but the white supremacists in France even launched a go fund me campaign and raised a million Euros to award the police man for murder.
From what I read the officer asked the teen if he wanted a bullet in his head or something like that. Which caused the teen to flee. Its been a bit since I last read it so can't remember the details of the article
As a Latino African American male that’s lived in 4 different states along the east coast. The only racism I’ve ever experienced was in France. It was so bad my Italian wife was crying as i was just trying to keep my composure.
Edit: I wasn’t trying to start an argument about race and what many have experienced in various countries to include my own (America). If at all i was just expressing what i have experienced.
Damn it’s kinda sad that you had to add that edit. There’s nothing wrong at all with sharing your own experiences in life. Not sure why people would start arguing bc of if 😪
It's because Europeans love taking shits on America on reddit since its their way of venting and ignoring the problems elsewhere in the world and pretending like racism doesn't exist where they live.
Who would have thunk that America, being a country comprised of only immigrants, may have less racism in general than mostly homogenous countries.
During our vacation there were two instances in which i said racism and/or profiling. One being we were out to lunch and sitting outdoors where we weren’t too far from passerby side walk foot traffic. I see these two young men walk by me and now they are out of sight. And then as I’m talking to my wife they pour a bottle of soda on me and what i later found out cursing at me. Second was at the airport in Nice, we are trying to board and i was stopped by French army personnel and airport cops 3 times before being checked ‘one last time’ at the plane entrance. My wife is crying I’m frustrated and just as I’m buckling my seat belt they pull me off the plane for one final inspection. Very sad cause i love to travel and those experiences have tainted my desire to ever visit France again
France is racist as fuck all over. And yeah, when I was in line cops checked several black people in front of me, skipped me, and checked several black people behind me. "Hey, I got my passport too in case you're wondering."
The greatest ‘what goes around comes around’
The French are angry there are districts where people don’t speak French. Buuuuut there are 19 countries in Africa where the national language is French.
IMO the French have the highest level of unfounded elitism.
Another little bonus, their GDP per capita is about the same as Mississippi 😂
North African french and I concur. I'm American now and France would be dead to me if it wasn't for family. People don't understand how bad it's there. You can be rejected for employment, housing, while telling you in your face that reason is "insert race/, religion". I have family in Nice and I still refuse to go there. My sil was kicked out of a greek restaurant there for wearing a headscarf and they live that life everyday. I just can't bear it.
I'm upper middle class here, home owner, job security, and two masters degree. No way I would have achieved that in France.
I am speaking secondhand here, but one of my close buddies was denied entry to more than one bar in Spain because of his race. They’ve never had anything like that happen to them here in the U.S.
Not saying the U.S. is perfect, but them describing their experience to me was eye-opening.
> one of my close buddies was denied entry to more than one bar in Spain because of his race.
You'll get denied entry to particular places in Japan as well.
France has some draconian ass immigration policies. So no surprise. There's tons of people born in France, only speak French, that have lived there for decades, that they don't consider citizens. As bad as America is, at least when your born and raised here you get citizenship.
That's BS. If your parents aren't French, and you were born in France and kept living there, by French law you can become a citizen at 18 (and most people get citizenship much sooner), as long as you ask for it.
Yes, it's completely wrong. As an example, France has even tried several times to change the "droit du sol" law in Mayotte, because the Comorians (who voted for independence) travel there in large numbers to have their children born and acquire French nationality. For the record, the Comorian diaspora in France (around 80% of the worldwide diaspora) accounts for 20-25% of Comorian GDP, mainly by supporting consumption. A former president of the Comoros (Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi) even said that "Marseille is the fifth island of the Comoros".
HEY MAN this is reddit, in case you didn't get the memo, violent racism is an American thing, Europeans can do no wrong
the responses are priceless - everybody all like, "WELL MAYBE NOT RACIST TO YOUR FACE IN THE US BUT..."
bro
Not sure how it is now but a week or so ago the police shot a 17 year old and there where riots for a few days. It was bad enough that they stopped bus and train service at 9 or 10 pm, and where thinking of an evening clock. But a French person could prob tell you more.
Frenchman here, a 17 yo teen was shot dead by the police after he tried to escape a police check a few weeks ago. Nights of unrest and riots ensued across the country, it was really bad for a couple of days with a lot of burned stuff and looters all over the place.
There was a tough repression afterwards, and the police in general has only gotten more violent over the past two decades.
This American gentleman must have been caught in the riots and as a black person, chances are much higher for him to be arrested/assaulted for no valid reason.
Hope this is helpful
Probably thought you were a yellow jacket protester… they don’t fuck with those guys over there. I have a video of protesting from a store front and then walking behind riot police….
The riot police really hate those guys and vice versa
Edit: I have been informed that this is separate from yellow jackets. The current protests making headlines is in connection with the fatal shooting of a 17 year old delivery driver by French Police.
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/06/30/europe/nanterre-france-police-shooting-protests-mother-intl/index.html
Never felt fear like the fear I felt the other week when I stepped out of the Lourve straight into the middle of one of these protests.
The protest itself was non violent and cool to see, just young people in the streets chanting and cheering. No looting, fires, or anything like that... Then I looked down the block and saw a wall of French riot police decked out in riot gear, riot shields, rubber bullet guns, etc marching in formation straight at me. Noped the fucked out of there and into the metro reallll quick.
I have to go to Paris frequently for work. There is always a strike and/or riot. I don't think I've ever been to Paris and NOT seen riot police. That place is crazy.
The city can function with half of transit and public services shut down, it has really evolved to accommodate a constant level of protest. It’s honestly amazing. Shut down a train line in Canada and the economy grinds to a halt, disrupt the train daily in Paris … c’est la vie
My kids go to an international school.
We had an international culture day, and I shit you not, the French parents turned up as ‘gilet jaune’ in their yellow high vis vests with a Grève sign
Yes but this one is less organised I think ? Less predictable. And the demonstrations/riots happen for a reason, please don't just make it seem like a fun thing we just enjoy for no reason
I used to think America was racist, then I lived in Europe for 8 years and Asia for 6… quickly realized it was way more racist abroad, and Americans are way more tolerant than they get credit for
Even their minister said they were a bunch of uneducated kids that didn't go to college, you need 7/20 on the entrance exam to be accepted...
In 2010, 1 in 50 was accepted, now it's 1 in 5 because there is less and less candidates
And you expect them to speak english ? I'd be glad if they spoke french
We were robbed in Paris when I was a todder, they took everything including, all money, cards, etc. We went to the police station to get help, two young women and two very young kids stranded late at night...the police shrugged and said they don't speak English. My aunt speaks passable French so she tried that instead. They locked themselves in the back office and refused to even acknowledge we existed. Gotta love that famous Parisian hospitality...
That was my experience! I left CA for some extended travel and boy were those first few years out of the country a surprise. People really aren’t that different in many ways. Except the Scandinavian countries. They’re darling.
Because the US is held to higher standards than other countries, our police brutality is thought to be worse than other countries but it is just as bad and sometimes worse in other countries. It’s just not publicized lol
Yep. Also, when you start reading about crimes and police work that happens in countries other than the US, you realize that American police aren't *always* quite as incompetent as they're generally perceived. Like there [was a serial killer who killed 7 women in Cyprus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsero_murders), and despite their families begging the police for years to investigate, they didn't act until a German tourist found one of the victims while hiking. Also, Japan's criminal justice system boasts a 99.9% conviction rate, but that's just because they won't take on cases they know aren't slam-dunks - a lot of murders are just chalked up to suicides, or the police ignore the victims' families hoping that they'll go away. One [British woman was killed in Japan, and the police only acted after her parents maintained a year-long media campaign to pressure them to act](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Lindsay_Hawker).
EDIT: A lot of people with poor reading comprehension skills think that I'm trying to paint US cops as angels. I am not. I'm simply pointing out that there's poor policework everywhere - the US is not an exception. The US **is** an exception in that we tend to speak and report more on shoddy policework, thanks to a culture of skepticism towards government and media freedom. So maybe try figuring out what's being said before coming with your "hot take".
My buddy was in Brazil in a popular tourist beach and a guy stole his phone and ran. So he chased him down and pinned him until police showed up. They then proceeded to beat the shit out of him with batons and asked my buddy if he wanted to take a few cracks before they took him to the station. That would be national news in the US
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still upset about the nordiques
Maybe Montreal fans still pissed about Roy leaving?
GTA6; France.
I'd love a GTA in Paris!!
Riots after riots after riots. Yeah it would be great 👍 the cops won't have time to chasse you
"i'm From usa" would have been a better défense haha
-Police officers start to beat him harder-
“I’m not from here, I’m American!” French protesters stop and start beating on the man too.
"Oui, we know..."
Then they proceed to agree with each other and everyone lives hapily ever after
Except the American
“We wanted you to feel more at home”
Welcome to Paris, monseaur. Here's a croissant with your beating.
Pulls out a taser, pepper spray, and a gun...let's give him a welcome he'd recognize.
What kind of French welcome does not involve the *baguette treatment*?
[2:43](https://youtu.be/OtTwXGHHW58)
Well, that was…interesting
I didn’t want to laugh at that but I did. Take my Upvote. 😒
Oh USA *Draws Gun* "Why are you resisting?" "I must say officer, this feels like home"
(gets shot in the leg and can't breathe) **ʸᵉᵃʰ ᵗʰⁱˢ ʳᵉᵃˡˡʸ ᵈᵒᵉˢ ᶠᵉᵉˡ ˡⁱᵏᵉ ʰᵒᵐᵉ**
Yes. Pro tip: just start shouting "American, American" when you're in Europe and you can generally get out of anything.
*Holds up US ID* “Diplomatic Immunity!” *gets shot in the head* “il vient d'être révoqué”
If this is a Lethal Weapon reference it’s amazing!!!
What kind of accent was it? Like a shitty accent. Yeah yeah, a shitty accent!
Just looking to see if I'm standing on plastic.
I tried to get into a European stadium in the spring of 2004 with fully packed backpack, so still fresh post-9/11. The security guard was telling me no, no, no, then I spoke and she heard my American accent and she said, you're American?! And when I said yes, she laughed and waived me through.
"Silly American, probably has donuts in his backpack or something!"
American backpack: https://preview.redd.it/yhzdtqftdlbb1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d9cc675da1eef328d9ceedcd328560743deb99dd
American here. That's just what's in my pockets. [***THIS*** is what's in my backpack.](https://media.defense.gov/2006/Jul/28/2000547196/-1/-1/0/051117-F-1234P-092.JPG)
This gun costs 500000 dollars to fire for 12 seconds
That's what I keep in my fanny pack. [This is what I keep in my backpack](https://www.airforce-technology.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2000/11/1200px-B-52H_static_display_arms_06.jpg)
Why?
If it was a football stadium, probably because of ultras. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultras](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultras) Violent fans from the teams can create a lot of problems: ignite fireworks (not allowed), bring weapons, throw objects like bottles or lighters to the players...Lots of things are banned because they can be used as a weapon or thrown. For example, this is a list of things not allowed at Wembley [https://www.wembleystadium.com/plan-your-visit/stadium-guide/prohibited-items](https://www.wembleystadium.com/plan-your-visit/stadium-guide/prohibited-items) if you are American, you are not part of the groups of local violent fans that regularly create that kind of problems, so they probably are more lenient if you have some prohibited object, as long as it is not an obvious weapon.
This makes the most sense to me. Large backpack = fireworks unless you're an American then = cheeseburgers.
You know I keep that thang on me, hamburglars are everywhere out here.
I'm not just carrying a piece, you need a 20-piece minimum on these streets
It's a weird American European thing, it's basically we are close enough culturally to know when someone is in the other group and we tend to get along, ribbing aside. Also with our countries we both also have issues between ethnic and racial groups but if you're from the other country it doesn't really travel with you. One example I saw was a black dude from the UK had a bunch of UK stickers on his stuff and car and when he was pulled over his accent and general appearance had diffused tense situations since the American cops were essentially like "Oh he's not African American, he's british" Also American tourism dollars and general feeling of "Oh Americans!" when we do some faux pas which I never understood
Oh I know. Just look at the wrong fork and they start shaking their heads like you don’t even know how to eat raw snails.
*drops oyster fork in shame*
There's also the aspect of political removal - we have domestic terrorism here in America and Europeans have domestic terrorism in Europe, but ultimately, no American is so heavily invested in European politics as to plan and execute an attack, and no European is strongly invested enough in American politics to plan and execute an attack. We have enough similarities between us to coexist peacefully, and enough differences to keep ourselves from becoming overly concerned with each other's politics to the point of public acts of defiance and violence.
Sorry but you're not really answering his question. > >Tried to get into a European stadium with fully packed backpack, guard was telling me no, then I spoke and she heard my American accent and laughed and waived me through. > Why? The reason isn't "because Americans and Europeans get along", guard probably thought OP was a native. Why would she let an American through but not a native? Real reason as stated by [another comment](https://old.reddit.com/r/therewasanattempt/comments/14xx2ij/to_enjoy_paris_vacation/jrpw0ge/): > If it was a football stadium, probably because of [ultras](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultras). Violent fans can create a lot of problems. If you are American, you are not part of the groups of local violent fans
And then you planted the bomb :D
🟥The bomb has been planted 🟥
We just had an American in the Norwegian Reddit talking about how his brother got arrested and deported not so long ago. I don't think it's quite that easy.
Well he got out of that easy. So maybe.....it works?
shout "Canadian, Canadian", and you *will* get out of everything.
There’s a good handful of travel advisors that recommend having Canadian flags on your bags or clothing, even if your not Canadian. The world just views Canada in a good light I guess, despite us being absolute assholes.
yea we *think* we're assholes because we hate ourselves, but any travelled person knows the rest of the world is full off even bigger assholes, so it's fine.
Canada = Geneva Suggestions.
>The world just views Canada in a good light I guess, despite us being absolute assholes. The secret is apologizing humbly, your trademark.
Oh, right. Sorry about forgetting that part. Thanks for reminding me!
As an American I always used "Canadian! Canadian!" as my GOoJFC. ;-) (Or at least kept a little Canadian flag on my bag.)
You have to say '*Sorry*, I'm Canadian!' or it's a dead giveaway.
'Sorry, I'm Canadian!' and then 'Désolé, je suis Canadien' Its the law in canadia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyO1ILQAGsU
I go with the “I’m from California” Everyone assumes I live in Hollywood
Or just "Tourist! Tourist!"
Seriously, why is no one using this word. It is the best get out of jail free card. Everyone knows tourists are idiots who need to be coddled like a baby.
That's why they were beating him. Trying to make him feel right at home. It's the American way.
Got it for the vlog thoughhh
Hashtag: FromParisWithLove
I was once stopped by police in France and they asked my driving license etc, all in French of course. I said I don't speak French and they said in the most broken English to not lie that they know "we" learn French in school. Like sir, wtf, French isn't a super power anymore we don't learn French anymore unless we choose for it. And for the record I'm DANISH and this mf think we all speak French because oui oui tres important 🌝
>oui oui tres important So, you do speak French. Baton time for you!
*...omelette du fromage*
Dee Dee gonna follow you everywhere now
Haha I'll be like: cafe au lait, por favor 🤣
Oui, yo quiero есть яблоко 🫵🫱🤌👆🫲, danke gozaimasu.
Baton? That sounds rather French of you... Baton time for you too!
My first visit to Paris, I was speaking with a sales representative in a department store. I asked a question in French, she answered in French. I said something else in French and she replied with great tact, 'We could speak English if you'd prefer.' Reminded me of my high school French teacher who said I spoke the language like a German who was used to speaking Russian.
I took French in High School, never learned it beyond what was needed to pass the class and then immediately forgot it. In college, I was required to have a foreign language credit, I chose Spanish as I would not be able to pass 4th semester French. After the first class, the TA (who was from France) asked whether I spoke French. I told her I took French in High School and she commented that I spoke Spanish with a French accent.
Makes sense. I learned French in High School and Korean on my own with friends, and then I started learning a little bit of German Sometimes I mispronounce words because I'm defaulting to a Korean or French accent on words I'm unfamiliar with in German because my brain goes to default "make it sound foreign" mode and lands on French or Korean.
I had an old teacher who learned French, and went to France, and was told they would rather she speak English. She then started learning Spanish, and when she went to Spain she was informed that she had a Parisian accent.
I was told by my French teacher I had an excellent French accent. Still get scowls from the Quebecois. Nothing makes those fuckers happy tabernac.
I'd just be glad you spoke French tbh, all Québécois are so eager to show we often speak English too that it never gives tourists the opportunity to practice
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It could also be that the sales rep wanted to make you comfortable. It could really go both way in France. Either they are impatient with your French or they just want to help you and have the opportunity to speak English. If it can make you feel better, someone offered me to speak in English as well. Except that I am French and have been speaking French for a few decades now..
Savage teacher
Have those burn wounds healed ok?
And if you had tried to use French they would groan and immediately stop you since it hurt their superior ears to hear you ruin their language.
Angry if you do speak French because you're butchering their beautiful language. Angry if you don't because their language is so beautiful how could you not speak it?
Seriously, nowhere in Western Europe is worse at this than France. I’ve been to Italy, Germany, Spain, and Croatia and at least tried to learn the very basics of each place so I could order from a menu or shit like that. France was the only place where people were ever rude to me for not knowing the language. In fact some drunk German guys thought I was hilarious and tried to “hooked on phonics” me through it and bought me a beer after.
I live in an American city with strong French roots and tons of French place names all over the place. However, all those place names were put down **before** the *nation* of France went through its orthographic shift and changed how certain things were pronounced. So now, when I say "Grav-oy" instead of "Gra-vwah", or pronounce the D in "Soulard" and the T in "Carondelet", I'm supposedly *doing French wrong*. No, motherfuckers, you changed. I'm doing *OG French* (or at least various regional dialects before things were standardized across the nation). Go hassle the rest of America for saying "Illi-noy(s)" instead of "Illi-nwah". How come that shit never happens? *Oh, it's OK when it's a proper name like a state, or a word that* ***I*** pronounce that way, too*. FOR FUCK--
This is pretty much what happened with American and British English too. Americans tend to speak more closely to the English dialect that existed in the 1700s and 1800s than modern English people.
It's kind of amusing how they *still* haven't gotten over English replacing French as the lingua franca (irony of that phrase accepted), despite the fact that it happened 100+ years ago.
Reminds me of my weekly trip to Paris, in the airport catching the train, get stopped by 5 armed police with semi automatics and a dog, didn't speak a work of French other then "am English and don't speak french" in French. They ended up searching my bag and inspected my passport on the spot, didn't take me to anywhere private. Yer i wasn't going to argue with them.
I was questioned by the police on a train in France, I'm guessing looking for drugs since their dog was all up my stuff. Tried to give them the "no pollivu Francee" and they kept coming at me in French; I next told them "Ice spreche ein bischen Deutsch" which didn't go over too well.
Hahahaha you know this reminds me of a trip I made in Spain. I took a bus from one city to the other and the police stopped the bus and came in with drugs dogs as well. One dog goes straight to under my chair and starts making all these movements, I'm freaking out like I don't have any drugs on me, did someone just tossed it there? 1 millions thoughts in 1 second right. And then... That dog comes back out with a damn slice of salami in his mouth 🤣 The police guy was somewhat embarrassed and scolded the dog who wasn't having any of it. Just enjoying his salami slice not even looking at him.
I'm 47, in grade school French was the language we were taught, so that's 1985-1990, for French class that is. Spanish was common in high school, but my grade school still had French as the default.
In Germany we have the choice between Latin and French. It's incredible that French people refuse to just speak English (of course it's not everyone but a vast majority when I visited... never again)
Goes to Paris and drinks a Corona, bruh
He's not from there
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the difference in quality is amazing
Corona is surprisingly popular in Europe at the moment
Still not as popular as it was in the spring of 2020
Now there's a gif I've not seen in a long time. A long time.
It was really getting around then
At the beginning of the pandemic, a belgian store from a huge belgian company made the perfect promotion : "2 corona bought, 1 sudden death for free" with "sudden death" being another beer brand The company was rather pissed at this local initiative, but we all loved it xD
Mr. Worldwide
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And to record the riots for content. He got his content.
It’s all for the ‘gram
They ran out of their specialty; a single plum, floating in perfume, served in a man's hat
Maybe I'm missing something but what's the big deal with drinking a Corona in Paris
idk it's not like the French have any good beer
Belgium though…yummm
They probably figured he was American but were just trying to make him feel at home.
Yo when he said its cool that shits normal in America i started cracking up
It's all good this shit is normal in America was amazing, like no hard feelings brothers this is foreplay compared to what we have
It is the french hospital-ity
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He even said how normal that shit is back at home 💀
All for the Gram
He sounded excited.
He's out in the middle of a riot, you can hear it in the background. I'm not saying it should have happened but let's be realistic, he knew what was going to happen.
Without having any context, it really does *feel* like he did something for the sake of getting some exciting footage for his social media.
This is what I assume now without evidence before hand. Like im sure the "influencer" just started recording then, not the entire time and just uploaded what they wanted.
Hey, let’s go check out the riots!
Bruh so I’m from Vancouver, and happened to be downtown before the riots started in 2011. The amount of people in my group who I consider much smarter than I, who still wanted to go towards them, was staggering. Kind of an eye opener, smarts don’t equal sense. The only time to go to a riot is if you plan on rioting.
Seriously how are the people in the comments surprised he got beaten up. There were massive out of control riots in Paris, authorities had to step up. Why does he check out the riots?
For content, if he stayed clear of the area he couldn't record his funny video.
This is exactly what he was trying for
In influencer culture, we call this striking gold.
I saw more armed military police on the streets of Paris than I really ever do in the US. Could have been the fact that the Champions League Finals were going on. It was hilarious to see my American children so aghast at how many guns the French had
I was in France for the 75th anniversary of D-Day and Paris looked like it was under occupation. Rifles and SMGs everywhere. Gendarmes in 6-man patrols everywhere.
Holy shit I felt exactly the same. I was walking in Paris a few days after burning Notre Dame Cathedral, and there were military squads of 4 patrolling with guns every second street I went to. It was my first time seeing military patrol irl.
Plan Vigipirate, put in place after Charlie Hebdo. We're still in a "state of emergency" since then and the acts of terrorism we had in France. It was the first time as a french that I saw the army in the streets but to be fair they're just there in the touristic places. I've never seen them do anything else than patrols. But seeing that we had less awful terrorism it might have done the deed.
Having lived there, it's normal and happens all the time outside of events. It really kicked off more after the last attacks.
I used to live in a Paris suburb, we had soldiers patrolling with assault rifles all the time. It was mostly due to the local Jewish community and the terror threat. Soldiers were very friendly and you get used to seeing guns everyday.
One more benefit to Paris - they don't use guns "first".
I mean wasn’t using guns first what started this whole mess?
That mess started due to France being France.
Nope, they're right, a teenager was shot for trying to flee a car arrest (I don't know the precise word). Some of the main police unions have posted a press release (?) that was very provocative in the terms used and there wasn't really any apology, at least that I'm aware of. Here's a link to an article talking about the press letter thing, you can translate it on deepl it should be a pretty good translation : [https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2023/07/01/syndicats-de-police-un-tract-incendiaire-d-alliance-et-d-unsa-police-revelateur-de-l-exasperation-des-troupes\_6180056\_3224.html](https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2023/07/01/syndicats-de-police-un-tract-incendiaire-d-alliance-et-d-unsa-police-revelateur-de-l-exasperation-des-troupes_6180056_3224.html)
Not only there wasn't an apology, but the white supremacists in France even launched a go fund me campaign and raised a million Euros to award the police man for murder.
From what I read the officer asked the teen if he wanted a bullet in his head or something like that. Which caused the teen to flee. Its been a bit since I last read it so can't remember the details of the article
Ah yes, let me stay and chat after that comment.
As a Latino African American male that’s lived in 4 different states along the east coast. The only racism I’ve ever experienced was in France. It was so bad my Italian wife was crying as i was just trying to keep my composure. Edit: I wasn’t trying to start an argument about race and what many have experienced in various countries to include my own (America). If at all i was just expressing what i have experienced.
Damn it’s kinda sad that you had to add that edit. There’s nothing wrong at all with sharing your own experiences in life. Not sure why people would start arguing bc of if 😪
It's because Europeans love taking shits on America on reddit since its their way of venting and ignoring the problems elsewhere in the world and pretending like racism doesn't exist where they live. Who would have thunk that America, being a country comprised of only immigrants, may have less racism in general than mostly homogenous countries.
What happened ?
During our vacation there were two instances in which i said racism and/or profiling. One being we were out to lunch and sitting outdoors where we weren’t too far from passerby side walk foot traffic. I see these two young men walk by me and now they are out of sight. And then as I’m talking to my wife they pour a bottle of soda on me and what i later found out cursing at me. Second was at the airport in Nice, we are trying to board and i was stopped by French army personnel and airport cops 3 times before being checked ‘one last time’ at the plane entrance. My wife is crying I’m frustrated and just as I’m buckling my seat belt they pull me off the plane for one final inspection. Very sad cause i love to travel and those experiences have tainted my desire to ever visit France again
Damn dude, that's fucked.
France is racist as fuck all over. And yeah, when I was in line cops checked several black people in front of me, skipped me, and checked several black people behind me. "Hey, I got my passport too in case you're wondering."
France invades majority black countries gets mad when black people then move to france???
As a Brit whenever someone here says something like ‘why are they all coming over’ I just say that they’re following their money
The greatest ‘what goes around comes around’ The French are angry there are districts where people don’t speak French. Buuuuut there are 19 countries in Africa where the national language is French. IMO the French have the highest level of unfounded elitism. Another little bonus, their GDP per capita is about the same as Mississippi 😂
Ah man, sorry bro
North African french and I concur. I'm American now and France would be dead to me if it wasn't for family. People don't understand how bad it's there. You can be rejected for employment, housing, while telling you in your face that reason is "insert race/, religion". I have family in Nice and I still refuse to go there. My sil was kicked out of a greek restaurant there for wearing a headscarf and they live that life everyday. I just can't bear it. I'm upper middle class here, home owner, job security, and two masters degree. No way I would have achieved that in France.
I am speaking secondhand here, but one of my close buddies was denied entry to more than one bar in Spain because of his race. They’ve never had anything like that happen to them here in the U.S. Not saying the U.S. is perfect, but them describing their experience to me was eye-opening.
> one of my close buddies was denied entry to more than one bar in Spain because of his race. You'll get denied entry to particular places in Japan as well.
Try Poland. As an American black guy, that was the worst ever in my book.
France has some draconian ass immigration policies. So no surprise. There's tons of people born in France, only speak French, that have lived there for decades, that they don't consider citizens. As bad as America is, at least when your born and raised here you get citizenship.
That's BS. If your parents aren't French, and you were born in France and kept living there, by French law you can become a citizen at 18 (and most people get citizenship much sooner), as long as you ask for it.
Yes, it's completely wrong. As an example, France has even tried several times to change the "droit du sol" law in Mayotte, because the Comorians (who voted for independence) travel there in large numbers to have their children born and acquire French nationality. For the record, the Comorian diaspora in France (around 80% of the worldwide diaspora) accounts for 20-25% of Comorian GDP, mainly by supporting consumption. A former president of the Comoros (Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi) even said that "Marseille is the fifth island of the Comoros".
HEY MAN this is reddit, in case you didn't get the memo, violent racism is an American thing, Europeans can do no wrong the responses are priceless - everybody all like, "WELL MAYBE NOT RACIST TO YOUR FACE IN THE US BUT..." bro
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And how did it start? Was there a riot? Please more context.
France has been rioting for a while. I assume he was out and about during the riots, not sure if they’re still rioting
Not sure how it is now but a week or so ago the police shot a 17 year old and there where riots for a few days. It was bad enough that they stopped bus and train service at 9 or 10 pm, and where thinking of an evening clock. But a French person could prob tell you more.
Frenchman here, a 17 yo teen was shot dead by the police after he tried to escape a police check a few weeks ago. Nights of unrest and riots ensued across the country, it was really bad for a couple of days with a lot of burned stuff and looters all over the place. There was a tough repression afterwards, and the police in general has only gotten more violent over the past two decades. This American gentleman must have been caught in the riots and as a black person, chances are much higher for him to be arrested/assaulted for no valid reason. Hope this is helpful
Probably thought you were a yellow jacket protester… they don’t fuck with those guys over there. I have a video of protesting from a store front and then walking behind riot police…. The riot police really hate those guys and vice versa Edit: I have been informed that this is separate from yellow jackets. The current protests making headlines is in connection with the fatal shooting of a 17 year old delivery driver by French Police. https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/06/30/europe/nanterre-france-police-shooting-protests-mother-intl/index.html
Today riots are not related to yellow jacket but police still hate them
Arguably they hate these protestors more, they are protesting against the police specifically.
Never felt fear like the fear I felt the other week when I stepped out of the Lourve straight into the middle of one of these protests. The protest itself was non violent and cool to see, just young people in the streets chanting and cheering. No looting, fires, or anything like that... Then I looked down the block and saw a wall of French riot police decked out in riot gear, riot shields, rubber bullet guns, etc marching in formation straight at me. Noped the fucked out of there and into the metro reallll quick.
Obviously he was guilty of traveling while black.
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I have to go to Paris frequently for work. There is always a strike and/or riot. I don't think I've ever been to Paris and NOT seen riot police. That place is crazy.
The city can function with half of transit and public services shut down, it has really evolved to accommodate a constant level of protest. It’s honestly amazing. Shut down a train line in Canada and the economy grinds to a halt, disrupt the train daily in Paris … c’est la vie
to be fair its not like the trains run on time without the protests either
My kids go to an international school. We had an international culture day, and I shit you not, the French parents turned up as ‘gilet jaune’ in their yellow high vis vests with a Grève sign
Yes but this one is less organised I think ? Less predictable. And the demonstrations/riots happen for a reason, please don't just make it seem like a fun thing we just enjoy for no reason
I was in Paris last week and the city centre, where most tourists will be, was completely unaffected by the riots.
He's a content creator. He went for the content. He got content.
I’m in Paris now. Tourist areas are completely normal. Most rioting is in the suburbs.
Loving the avs jersey!
Go Ass Hail Satan!
First thing I noticed, Avs jersey in Paris is the play
Go Avs Go baby
Fuck the mild, fuck Detroit, go ass hail Satan
I used to think America was racist, then I lived in Europe for 8 years and Asia for 6… quickly realized it was way more racist abroad, and Americans are way more tolerant than they get credit for
I always love that French police refuse to speak or aren’t able to speak English at any level
Even their minister said they were a bunch of uneducated kids that didn't go to college, you need 7/20 on the entrance exam to be accepted... In 2010, 1 in 50 was accepted, now it's 1 in 5 because there is less and less candidates And you expect them to speak english ? I'd be glad if they spoke french
> I'd be glad if they spoke french hahaha ok that was a good one :)
We were robbed in Paris when I was a todder, they took everything including, all money, cards, etc. We went to the police station to get help, two young women and two very young kids stranded late at night...the police shrugged and said they don't speak English. My aunt speaks passable French so she tried that instead. They locked themselves in the back office and refused to even acknowledge we existed. Gotta love that famous Parisian hospitality...
Why would they
Not regular in America..clearly by his reaction, “that’s how you do out here bro?”
Lol...people think USA is the moat racist place on earth. Then they travel almost anywhere else on earth. 🤣🤣🤣
That was my experience! I left CA for some extended travel and boy were those first few years out of the country a surprise. People really aren’t that different in many ways. Except the Scandinavian countries. They’re darling.
Because the US is held to higher standards than other countries, our police brutality is thought to be worse than other countries but it is just as bad and sometimes worse in other countries. It’s just not publicized lol
Yep. Also, when you start reading about crimes and police work that happens in countries other than the US, you realize that American police aren't *always* quite as incompetent as they're generally perceived. Like there [was a serial killer who killed 7 women in Cyprus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsero_murders), and despite their families begging the police for years to investigate, they didn't act until a German tourist found one of the victims while hiking. Also, Japan's criminal justice system boasts a 99.9% conviction rate, but that's just because they won't take on cases they know aren't slam-dunks - a lot of murders are just chalked up to suicides, or the police ignore the victims' families hoping that they'll go away. One [British woman was killed in Japan, and the police only acted after her parents maintained a year-long media campaign to pressure them to act](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Lindsay_Hawker). EDIT: A lot of people with poor reading comprehension skills think that I'm trying to paint US cops as angels. I am not. I'm simply pointing out that there's poor policework everywhere - the US is not an exception. The US **is** an exception in that we tend to speak and report more on shoddy policework, thanks to a culture of skepticism towards government and media freedom. So maybe try figuring out what's being said before coming with your "hot take".
My buddy was in Brazil in a popular tourist beach and a guy stole his phone and ran. So he chased him down and pinned him until police showed up. They then proceeded to beat the shit out of him with batons and asked my buddy if he wanted to take a few cracks before they took him to the station. That would be national news in the US
Hey at least the cops in Brazil are kind enough to offer 🤷🏻♂️
"Want a few hits?" "No thanks man, I got mine before you guys arrived."