Paris causes the Chinese to snap

Bon

from msn.com

PARIS - Around a dozen Japanese tourists a year need psychological treatment after visiting Paris as the reality of unfriendly locals and scruffy streets clashes with their expectations, a newspaper reported on Sunday.

"A third of patients get better immediately, a third suffer relapses and the rest have psychoses," Yousef Mahmoudia, a psychologist at the Hotel-Dieu hospital, next to Notre Dame cathedral, told the newspaper Journal du Dimanche.

Already this year, Japan's embassy in Paris has had to repatriate at least four visitors -- including two women who believed their hotel room was being bugged and there was a plot against them

Previous cases include a man convinced he was the French "Sun King", Louis XIV, and a woman who believed she was being attacked with microwaves, the paper cited Japanese embassy official Yoshikatsu Aoyagi as saying.

"Fragile travelers can lose their bearings. When the idea they have of the country meets the reality of what they discover it can provoke a crisis," psychologist Herve Benhamou told the paper

The phenomenon, which the newspaper dubbed "Paris Syndrome", was first detailed in the psychiatric journal Nervure in 2004.

Bernard Delage of Jeunes Japon, an association that helps Japanese families settle in France, said:

"In Japanese shops, the customer is king, whereas here assistants hardly look at them ... People using public transport all look stern, and handbag snatchers increase the ill feeling."

A Japanese woman, Aimi, told the paper:

"For us, Paris is a dream city. All the French are beautiful and elegant ... And then, when they arrive, the Japanese find the French character is the complete opposite of their own."

ROFL...I dare say roflcopter...thats just plain hilarium in a hat

Luke-E

France asucks any way, i hate the french and i hate france. never go there it sucks,the people suck and there football/soccer teams are diving fucking ****s!

http://www.sportzworld.net/

Suffy

jv....i know im a mod but fuck you man fuck you

Arbiter

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Now play nice boys. I must warn the both of you for flaming outside the BB.
One more flame and this thing gets moved there.

Luke-E

OK sorry, but france does suck and i am aloud to think and say that suffy as you can say 'fuck you' to me suffy.

http://www.sportzworld.net/

Suffy

no you arent allowed to think that unless you back it up with a reason going around saying something sucks but for no reason just makes you a total idiot so until you can back it up i take everything you have said and will say with total disregard bc you are unable to back up anything you say

Bon

Arbiter

GFX Moderator

Poptarted?
And it would either be lock it or move it to the hate board, so that way they can flame each other all they want.

Suffy

sorry arby i dont take too kindly to people telling me that my homeland sucks when they dont give any reasoning at all, if he would have commented on the judicial system fine, or maybe the attacks on innocent muslims but for no reason fuck of course id get mad

wouldnt you get p.od if i suddendly said austrialia sucks for no reason

Troy

I loved it when I was in Japan. Japan > Paris. And Japanese women are hot. No I have nothing else to add to this thread.