America female visits France and is disappointed that it isn't like 'Emily In Paris' Tv series

Here's her Instagram (at link). It says she's from the Bay area. She describes herself as being a PHD foodie.

Silly clueless American bitch.

Interesting. I was in Paris (also Asian female) by myself for two weeks, with only the barest knowledge of French (Bonjour, Merci, Pardon, parlé vous anglais?), and had an amazing time. Tinder was a blast there too, the French men know how to date well. Loved it so much, I'm learning French, and am going back.

I also refuse to watch pap like EIP, so I don't have a romanticized version of Paris.

I’m sure there are French people who visit the USA and are surprised it’s not like it’s depicted on some TV show or movie.

There is a Japanese syndrome where Japanese tourists in Paris have meltdowns When the city is different from how they expected.

R5 Wah I couldn’t buy yet another useless item that I can show off to my friends.

....

putain de connasse idiote

I guess the American equivalent would be a European or Asian visiting NYC and being shocked and disappointed that it is nothing like the NYC they've seen on Friends.

I guess everyone is traumatized from stepping in dogshit.

Doite mon cul doucement. .

I went to France (Paris, Lyon) in my mid 30s and had only the most bare-bone expectations on what it would be like. While i was pretty shocked at all the fucking graffiti everywhere and surprised at the empty wine bottles/litter left in some of the green areas, I enjoyed my time there and everything I experienced and discovered.

But then again, I'm not an entitled bitch who thinks the world "owes" me a great, "concierge" experience. Your outcome depends on the effort you put into it - and that means not having such a high expectation that it's going to be like some goddamn romantic movie.

People really suck...and continue to show new and disappointing ways to illustrate their suckage.

I stayed in Paris for 3 months knowing very little french and without having much of a social life and I was as happy as a bug in a blanket and would have stayed 6 more months. While true that Parisians aren't the warmest of people, I found their indifference sort of liberating, where I felt no self consciousness at all, which is great when you're traveling alone. I never felt awkward going anywhere by myself, or anything like that that I have felt in other cities. It just felt very comfortable.

She never referenced Emily in Paris.

The "Paris Syndrome" link was appreciated. I've never heard of that and it's weird as fuck.

I love learning about obscure stuff like that that that I can "Cliff Claven" into conversations.

^^subtract a "that" in the above comment

She's in Lyon for too many days, and off season. Why? If she is a foodie and doesn't like to eat alone, she should have travelled with a friend or not travelled at all.

I have enjoyed every country I visited from 18-45 or so because, well, I could always meet people through the gay meat market and via bars and clubs.

Foreign travel probably is not easy for a good (moral) young woman who doesn't appear to be very intellectual or independent, horny, or to know how to amuse herself.

There are certainly cultural riches in Paris to occupy oneself for a week. But if you don't like being alone and don't have ways to meet the locals (because you are a bit of an incel) why bother.

Most importantly, instead of learning about herself, she is projecting her miserable experience on France and the French.

My partner and I spent a week in Paris. I had some French in high school and he didn't speak a word. The people couldn't have been nicer. Once, while trying to figure out where we were going using the Metro, a Parisian came up to us and helped us out. Using my awful HS French in a bakery, the people there were so friendly and helpful. We went to several restaurants where we sat at tables with other people and worked out a way to communicate over wine and food. We loved it.

In fairness to the PHDFoodie, I have seen French people charm a beautiful, young, blonde American tourist with broken Berlioz French and feign ignorance to someone who looks like her.

There are assholes in every country.

This thread reminds me of that idiot that visited Paris for 4 hours.

r19 - are you saying the French seem to have some deep-seated aversion to Asian people overall?

The French love blondes.

In LES MISERABLES book, Fantine is able to sell her hair for big bucks because she's a natural blonde.

[quote]Tinder was a blast there too, the French men know how to date well. Loved it so much, I'm learning French, and am going back.

French men cheat.

A lot.

And it's culturally acceptable.

[Quote] I don’t really like it here. The culture, the experience… I mean, I even bought a French hat.

This is why they hate you. You bought a ‘French hat’ expecting that to allow you to fit in?!

So the Asian woman wore a beret. Disgusting cultural appropriation!

Not really seeing how she thought it would be like Emily In Paris; she just had her time travelling in that one place on a trip that wasn’t up to her expectations of enjoying herself and is honest about it rather than bragging that they only knew the words “bonjour” and “merci” and people were falling over themselves to help them.

That happens in one place or another if you are used to travelling a lot. It happens more often than people admit on social media, especially in regards to a place like France that people have such high expectations of falling in love with. Most people won’t admit that they were a social failure when travelling, or had more “me time” than expected.

[quote] are you saying the French seem to have some deep-seated aversion to Asian people overall?

I’m saying the French culturally love beauty, and interacting with pretty people makes them feel good. So yeah, I can imagine waiter or somesuch seeing a normal looking, everyday looking person like her, Asian or not, and not considering her worthy of the effort to do sign language or understanding her guidebook French.

Thanks r19, r7. It was a real question, not a snark or an attempt to belittle you.

I appreciate your answer.

The only French guy I know has a thing for very young Asian boys. He's 67 and his new "boyfriend" in China just turned 20. For some odd reason he dose not like Japan. Maybe the gay boys there are too smart for his pedoesk intentions or not ladyboy enough for him.

[quote] This thread reminds me of that idiot that visited Paris for 4 hours.

WE SHOULD DESTROY HIM

I've been to Paris twice and I was seriously underwhelmed, apart from the museums. I wouldn't have made a video complaining about it though - I just won't go back. I love Rome, London, Prague, Vienna, Madrid...just can't stand Paris.

R31 how come?

I'v been to paradise, but it's never been to me.

I, too, would like to know how Paris underwhelmed you.

Did you not take the opportunity to stay in a seedy hotel and watch hot French porn on the tv?

Or ascend the Eiffel Tower at night and see the fireworks reflected in a nearby mirrored building?

No boating down the Seine on a lovely river cruise?

You didn't visit the (very crowded) L'Oevre? Or a cafe in the morning for a cappuccino and pastry right outside your hotel?

No walk down the Champs-Élysées?

No visit to the Notre-Dame de Paris?

No eating a meal in an outdoor cafe where nobody fawned over you like you were the most important person in the world?

I heard Paris is a shithole these days. What R34 describes sounds more like a tourist trap of cliche's than a pleasant city to visit.

r35 - this was in 2007. Try again.

[quote] Or a cafe in the morning for a cappuccino and pastry right outside your hotel?

Coffee and pastry? In Paris r34? Wow. I’m sure that doing that of a morning never, ever occurred to people whose Parisian itinerary was not straight out of a Nancy Meyers film.

Hello, r37. If you don't find joy in the place that made that a thing, you're an Ebenezer.

I went to New York and as soon as I bought an American hat (baseball cap) I fit right in and everyone loved me.

Ive spent years in France and never encountered Berlioz French.

Of the big Western European cities, onlyParis survived World War II almost completely intact. If you like pre-war architecture and a wealth of cultural institutions, you will not be disappointed. If you don’t like those things, there’s probably not much reason to go in the first place. If you have very defined expectations of what the residents will do with you, you will probably be disappointed by any destination.

Would you want to be around this person? Why blame the French?

That 99% of self-described travel and food and lifestyle "influencers" have more than 16 followers is a mystery to me.

There are a few who do well by the first two subjects, but for most it's an exercise in creating the illusion of a glamorous lifestyle that is the real point.

If you have an interesting or even a well-defined perspective and share some photos without a lot of editorializing, it can work, but these long tedious videos, camera turned always to the influencer, whining about their likes and don't-likes and hackneyed "insider tips" that would make even Rick Steves blush...why does anyone watch that shit? Why does the influencer assume anyone would care?

This sour, dreary woman laboring under the illusion that her American social skills should catapult her to privileged attention and insider views had fuck all to offer an audience of her own family, let alone strangers.

Travel shouldn't be about strangers in strange lands fawning all over a foreign traveller. Travel isn't about lessons learned and filed away as finished all in an afternoon.

Some people should just stay the fuck home.

"Most people won’t admit that they were a social failure when travelling, or had more “me time” than expected"

The 3 months in Paris I definitely would have liked to socialize a bit more, especially at night. Other than occasionally going out with my french-as-a-second language classmates or going to an odd meet up now and then, it was mostly me time. Yet I absolutely loved every second of it. I just loved Paris so much and I feel I got to connect more to it by being alone. But I think it's all about personality, some people don't do alone well, in their own country or abroad.

You didn't visit the (very crowded) L'Oevre?

You mean the Louvre?

[quote]Of the big Western European cities, onlyParis survived World War II almost completely intact.

Oh hi!

[quote]Of the big Western European cities, onlyParis survived World War II almost completely intact.

What were you saying?

R47. This is what I was saying

R46. Oh, goodbye!

r49 Rome was pretty much intact. btw Istanbul is not a European city.

Just as European as London or Birmingham, or Moscow or Odessa.

Turkey is not a European country.

My father lived in Paris for 45 years. he said they do not think like Americans and if you wanted to fit in you had to think like a Frenchman which he eventually did. So I would guess that there is a line there that you might not find in other places.

As far as looks go, that is all over the world. People will step on themselves to serve beauty and ignore those that don't have it.

R49. The list is from Wikipedia. I didn’t create it. If you remove Istanbul from the list does Athens become a big city or are you just playing stupid.?

Sorry. The comment about the Turkey idiocy was for R52.

And also R50’s stupidity, obviously.

r56 Rome didn't get hit nearly as hard as other cities.

[quote] The list is from Wikipedia. I didn’t create it. If you remove Istanbul from the list does Athens become a big city or are you just playing stupid.?

So why did you post it if the info was clearly incorrect?

[quote]If you remove Istanbul from the list does Athens become a big city or are you just playing stupid.?

Athens is not only a big Western European city, it was the birthplace of Western Civilization.

R57 Whether a city is historically important has nothing to do with its size. If that is hard for you to grasp, it’s pretty much hopeless.

With respect to Istanbul, it is considered by many to be a European city. In that respect the list us is not incorrect. Furthermore, I would not have examined every single city in the list in anticipation that someone would be so desperately stupid as to think Istanbul’s inclusion makes any difference to evaluating whether Athens is a pretty modest-sized city or not.

Madrid

[quote]With respect to Istanbul, it is considered by many to be a European city.

Well they're wrong.

R60 = cosmopolitan arbiter of all things European. Posting from Dunkin' in Gary, Indiana.

R60. Not everyone is as smart as you.

r61 I'm actually in Midtown right now and any fool can tell you that Turkey, although partially geographically located in Southeastern Europe 97% of it is in Anatolia. That 3% Greek clay of a land they have in Eastern Thrace doesn't make the entire country European. If it did, I could use the same logic to call France a Latin country. And it is not a European country by cultural definition. Not at all.

Although technically Anatolia is part of the Middle East, for Turks the term brings up connotations of Arabic/Semitic peoples, which they do not identify with nor feel any strong affinity with.

God, people are stupid.

Right, r64?

I spent a few hours passing through Paris some years back. The architecture is absolutely beautiful, but everything is filthy and there were heaps of beggars.

It would be an amazing city if somebody went at it with a waterblaster

Don’t feed the anti-Turk troll who pretends that Istanbul is removed from Europe. She’s stupid, obtuse, a bad troll…all rolled into one asshole.

r67 Istanbul is not a European city JFC.

Just shut the fuck up—please.

r69 I'm not the one who started it. Just admit you're wrong and move on.

Too late —you’re blocked. Kind of like your blockhead understanding of European cities.

Good r71 block me. You obviously can't handle hearing fact.

Calling Istanbul a European city is pretty damn stupid. Culturally is has nothing to do with Europe.

More than 2000 years of the history of western civilization begs to differ.

r73 Turkey has been intertwined with Western Civilization (mostly in a negative way) but inherently it is not European.

Yes Constantinople was the seat of the Eastern Roman Empire but Byzantine society and culture differed from Western European culture in many ways. It would be like saying since Egypt, Carthage etc. were subjugated by the Roman Empire and ruled by them for centuries that they too are part of Western Civilization.

Well this thread went sideways in record time. Take it outside girlinas.

I've only been to Paris once, and it was glorious. I also didn't go with any expectation. That's the issue. Aside from the fact that anyone who expects what she expected, is just fucking moronic. She had the internet in her hand, and didn't even bother to do the research. I choose to view this situation as comedy of the stupid.

The little cunt should've learned even TEN WORDS OF FRENCH before going.

And ditch that stupid fucking beret. You might as well traipse around Texas in a Stetson and Daisy Dukes, or walk around Ireland in a hollowed-out whiskey barrel. It's offensive.

R53. The dispute is whether Istanbul is European or not Why are you arguing about whether the totality of Turkey is European or not unless you are deeply stupid?

I love Paris!

Istanbul?

That's nobody's business but the Turks.

She's a China female, not an America female.

There is no dispute that Istanbul is properly identified as a European city. Ask the UN, the EU, NATO, the OECD, any European head of government (including the Greek PM!) and anyone in Istanbul.

What a dumb naval-gazing cunt.

But what about Constantinople?

Are the Canaries "in" Europe?

Sorry r81 but Istanbul is not a European city.

Who is America Female? Isn’t she an actress?

Punta Delgado is in the middle of the Atlantic, but it’s a European city.

R85 feels in his bones that Istanbul is not a European city, so why hadn’t everybody shut up about it?

This story combines DL flyover cunts' love of France with their hatred of women. The only think missing is something about black people.

Well the French enjoy their time with handsome black folks. Not so much the asians.

Paris is a fantastic city in which to travel alone. And contrary to what I had heard, French people were very nice to me once they heard my accent.

I’m not Asian or black though, that might sway their attitudes, it’s hard to say.

She's got that disgusting vocal fry down pat. Couldn't listen to more than 10 seconds of her blather.

A lot of Asian American women speak with the vocal fry, I’ve noticed. Vocal fry can sound like some Asian accents too. Korean accents sound very vocal fryish to me.

R91 I never had a problem with french people being rude. I tried to speak to them in french the most I could so that probably helped. That said not being rude and being friendly isn't the same and parisians for the most part are not unless they're drunk or horny ( cat calls are pretty common, though for the most part I didn't mind it, they kept it pretty classy). Still, as far as the people, I found myself happily surprised with how friendly Londoners were in comparison. Paris for the city, London for the people.

Tearful TikTok videos are the greatest art form of the 2020s. .

It would be helpful if she explained what her expectations were. Multiple invitations from locals to Sunday lunch? Invitations to parties? Multiple men offering themselves to her sexually?

They probably snubbed her. It’s not unheard of for Parisians to be racist and dismissive. Wasn’t my experience but I’ve definitely heard it.

French guys are very attractive. Their indifference of local men probably hit her harder than in other places she had traveled.

In the video she’s bitching about her time in Lyon and not Paris like most commenters here are mentioning. I get the feeling not many of you actually watched the video.

Yes. Many of us did not do the assigned homework.

Is it necessary to have cunts like R3 here?

Nothing she wrote was even remotely cunty R101

R99 all the french people I know say that it's not french people itself that are rude/unfriendly, it's that it's a parisian thing. So if she's having a harder time in a smaller city I cant imagine what it would be like in Paris.

Drag her to the guillotine. Toute suite!

Her month-long solo travel adventure consisted on "24 Hours in Malmo"; a couple days in Copenhagen; an Italian leg to Milan, Venice, Florence; Munich; France (famously Lyon and presumably somewhere else, though she's pulled any IG entries for France); and Switzerland she had planned (but again, no IG entries.

Her favorite city in the world: Venice. No doubt because she likes to film videos of herself in bridges and Venice has them; also because it's a city that's all but entirely geared to serving tourists, with now fewer than 50,000 residents on the island city, more or less guaranteeing that the Italians with whom she interacts, selling her gelato or fritole, are nice and accustomed to tourists who speak just two words if Italian.

I wonder how many people she actually met outside the course of buying goods and services and staying at Hyatt hotels where she is a Globalist member. There are no IG posts of any night life or groups of her new international BFFs. But she insists in France that she had no trouble meeting Italians "or even Germans" in Munich. She ranked her Top 6 Xmas Markets: 3 in Munich, 2 in Copenhagen, 1 in Milan.

But, more international trips to come, she tells us! Maybe she will meet some fellow travelers or some locals not engaged in serving her food or glühwein or raspberry berets this time.

She found out that wherever you go, there you are.

Has anyone gone there and verified that the men do the Eiffel Tower position?

Istanbul is a transcontinental city, meaning it is partly located in Europe and partly in Asia. The historic core of Istanbul, including popular landmarks like the Hagia Sophia and the Blue Mosque, is situated in the European part of the city. However, the eastern portion of Istanbul lies in Asia, specifically the Anatolian Peninsula.

Thank you, Funk & Wagnall’s

This is like SATC when Carrie moped around Paris because her boyfriend was busy. LIke Carrie she deserves a good hard slap.

R109 Neither thanks nor apostrophe needed.

C'est mon plaisir.

Yet another apostrophe troll…they are like ants at a picnic… ain’t they.

I was in Paris in October. I speak no French. Everyone was kind, helpful and welcoming, so much so that I was surprised given everything I had heard about the rudeness of the French. I think a smile and some humility go a long way in these situations.

We went there in 2017 and loved it. Wasn't dirty at all compared to NYC.

[quote]She's even wearing a raspberry beret to try and fit in.

Is it the kind you find in a secondhand store?

She has that annoyingly fragile "pick me" attitude I hated in young women in the Pacific Northwest when I lived and traveled there. It’s like some low self esteem version of main character syndrome. Just the type to think a beret would soothe the savage French beast. They don’t handle blunt or straight forward conversation well.

I honestly don’t know how she didn’t get her feelings hurt in Germany. The Christmas market merchants must be a different breed due to the reliance on tourism.

She probably would have done better in Paris, actually; they are used to unseasoned tourists. She doesn’t seem to want to admit it, but she needs some hand-holding and encouragement.

'I've been to Paris, France and Paris, Paramount.

I prefer Paris, Paramount.'

Ernst Lubitsch

Well it doesn't help if they know you are a jew.

Mais qui est cette cunt?

R63 Midtown what?

Midtown on Mars, Rose.

Don’t feed the troll, please.

I was being snide. People in any other city would say which city they’re in.

[quote]You might as well traipse around Texas in a Stetson and Daisy Dukes, or walk around Ireland in a hollowed-out whiskey barrel. It's offensive.

In Texas they would not see that as offensive, they would see that as howdy partner!

Next trip: Amsterdam in wooden shoes! (She believes strongly in showing her support of the local economy of wooden shoe cobblers.)