Japanese Left Traumatised

[j.m@talk]

Around a dozen Japanese tourists each year need psychological treatment after visiting Paris, it has been revealed.
The problems reportedly arise when the reality of unfriendly locals and scruffy streets clash with more glamorous expectations.
The phenomenon has been dubbed "Paris Syndrome".
Japan's embassy in Paris has had to repatriate at least four visitors this year.
They included two women who believed their hotel room was being bugged and there was a plot against them.
"For us, Paris is a dream city. All the French are beautiful and elegant," a Japanese woman, Aimi, told the Journal du Dimanche.
"And then, when they arrive, the Japanese find the French character is the complete opposite of their own."
Bernard Delage, of Jeunes Japon, said: "In Japanese shops, the customer is king, whereas here assistants hardly look at them."
He added: "People using public transport all look stern, and handbag snatchers increase the ill feeling."
Psychologist Yousef Mahmoudia told the newspaper: "A third of patients get better immediately, a third suffer relapses and the rest have psychoses."

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[leprechaun_40]

Reminds me of this time in Yellowstone Park. My kids were bickering as usual, and having a good time. There was a couple busloads of Japanese tourists there at the time. We were on this boardwalk looking over a boiling pool of water when one of the Jap kids looks at another one and says " I don't like you anymore". The kid was just devastated. He collapsed on the deck and just bawled his eyes out. His mother had to come over and console him for what seemed like hours, saying he didn't mean it, etc. My kids laughed and said he wouldn't last 3 minutes with them, then continued calling each other names and punching each other.

I think the Japs are whimps lately.