No! People will be people, we all know that. We all have that "me first" attitude, some stronger and some more demure, though I've noticed that Parisians in particular have a bad “city wide” case of the strong “special me” attitude. They are apparently sooo much better than anyone else is. I was over there with the military for a bit and all of us had a dreadful time in Paris itself, (and it's spreading). Several of us could speak fairly understandable French and that seemed to enrage those we had dealings with even more. The restaurants and stores, where you’d think they’d at least try to hide their distain, really acted quite pompous. But not so much in the smaller towns and though we had to go further we drove out of Paris to do our shopping and restaurant hopping etc. The people were sooo much more friendly.

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