Seattle Times: Chinese tourists, besotted with image of Paris, find harsher reality
Sep 23, 2014, 9:13 pm
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Seattle Times: Chinese tourists, besotted with image of Paris, find harsher reality
Some Chinese are targeted and attacked by thieves. Others encounter indifference or rudeness, and some vow not to return.
http://seattletimes.com/html/travel/...uristsxml.html
http://seattletimes.com/html/travel/...uristsxml.html
Sep 24, 2014, 11:02 am
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Sounds like sensationalist hyperbole to me....
Psychologists warned that Chinese tourists shaken by thieves and dashed expectations were at risk for Paris Syndrome, a condition during which foreigners suffer depression, anxiety, feelings of persecution and even hallucinations when their rosy images of Champagne, majestic architecture and Monet are upended by the stresses of a city whose natives are also known for being among the unhappiest people on the planet.
Sep 24, 2014, 2:30 pm
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I think that there is some truth to this.
It is pretty clear that there is some kind of targeting of Asian tourists going on. I think it may be cultural... the touts and creeps hanging around the Eiffel Tower, etc. seem to prey on young Asian girls who aren't likely to put up a fuss.
It is pretty clear that there is some kind of targeting of Asian tourists going on. I think it may be cultural... the touts and creeps hanging around the Eiffel Tower, etc. seem to prey on young Asian girls who aren't likely to put up a fuss.
Sep 25, 2014, 7:29 am
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What I found 'unpleasant' in Paris were the numerous foreign beggars. Quite a scam, apparently, from Eastern European countries - it was actually a form of human trafficking where the 'pimps' held the passports of the beggars. Eventually we just developed a 'blind eye' to the scam artists but there WERE a lot of them (often with their sob stories in the same penmanship on their cardboard signs).
