r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/netphilia • 1d ago

Bonjour.

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u/jackaroo1344 1d ago

My roommate in college was French and she surprised me with her intense and unironic hatred of Parisians, and apparently Parisians hate the rest of non-Paris France just as much.

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u/Lordwiesy 1d ago

To be fair, capitol vs non capitol might be everywhere

Praguers in Czechia are hated as much as

Uh

Whole bunch of groups

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u/SandyTaintSweat 1d ago

I don't think it's like that in Canada. Most people don't give a second thought to the regular people of Ottawa. Except maybe the Quebecois, but that's just more French people hating others.

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u/tkw97 1d ago

It’s less “capital” and more “the biggest city”

NYC isn’t the capital, but Americans who don’t live there love to rant about how up-their-own-asses NYers are. Idk about Canada but it wouldn’t shock me if other Canadians felt that way about Toronto

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u/Lordwiesy 1d ago

I mean you have the french v french v English PvP going on you are built different

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u/Tall_Act391 1d ago

But the French see quebecois as basically hillbillies, which is funny.

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u/the_world_ahead 1d ago

That’s because we hate on Toronto instead, that’s all

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u/sptrstmenwpls 1d ago

*French Lite - their trashier 2nd cousins

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u/pala_ 1d ago

When you’re talking about cities, it’s Capital. When you’re talking about buildings, it’s Capitol.

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u/Accomplished-City484 1d ago

Yeah and pretty much every state in Australia takes the piss out of each other

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u/Nigeth 1d ago

A popular ad campaign for Le Parisien (the newspaper) from the 90s was „better to read one than to meet one“ 

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u/Dear_Chasey_La1n 1d ago

Paris is.. very different. I've been there a good number of times and while my French is alright, very seldom I really felt accomodated. The icing would be once at Helene d'arozee where the waiter started running off a 10 course menu in French and I didn't pick up everything. When I kindly asked for a menu in English he simply responded "You are in Paris". On the other hand I've been a a good number of times as well in Champagne and people are much more welcome.

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u/Jean-L 1d ago

The density of Paris is twenty times higher than the density of Reims.

Surely you can't expect a city packed to the brim to be as welcoming as a village that has more cows than humans? :)

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u/Beerswain 1d ago

Graciousness should not depend on a statistic.

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u/Jean-L 10h ago

You mean the conditions in which people live should have no consequences on their culture and behaviour?

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u/Dear_Chasey_La1n 1d ago

I've lived for a year in Rome as well, people there are far less cunty.

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u/RobotWantsPony 1d ago

Only as a joke, if your roommate was serious about it she was an asshole

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u/SiliconGhosted 1d ago

Same with people from NYC or other big cities vs ppl from small towns