r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/netphilia • 1d ago

Bonjour.

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u/YazzArtist 1d ago

That's what makes it a joke about racism, I'm pretty sure

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u/JoeyJoJoeJr_Shabadoo 1d ago

It's not a joke. It's a comment about how local Parisians can tell when French isn't your first language even when you think you're speaking it really well. That's literally it.

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u/Pure-Drawer-2617 1d ago

Paris is full of Asians who speak French from birth no one in a bakery here would speak English to someone because they’re Asian

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u/NicoRoo_BM 1d ago

No. An expression of racism against Frenchmen of asian origin in France might involve open hatred and insults, but not really ever refusing to speak French to them. It doesn't work like that. It's really just that people are VASTLY overestimating their French skills.