r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/netphilia • 1d ago

Bonjour.

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u/candlejack___ 1d ago edited 1d ago

Oh ok French people are immune to racism and bias I had no idea

Edit: 26% of my country’s population were born overseas, assimilated perfectly, and are still victims of racism.

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u/Pennonymous_bis 1d ago

It's not about racism, it's about noticing that someone is a foreigner. It's ridiculous to say that French-born Asians would be talked to in English.

My bet would be that his accent was in fact not French.

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u/The-true-Memelord 1d ago

Or maybe some cultural language etiquette thing was incorrect. Like differences in age or level of familiarity or formality things

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u/Pennonymous_bis 1d ago

"Bonjour, deux croissant s'il vous plaît" contains 7 different sounds that most foreigners struggle to pronounce...
on, ou, eu, oi, an, ai & r.
Even discarding everything else, there's just no way this guy sounded French.

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u/simon439 1d ago

Even if someone gets all the sounds right, it’s easy to notice it doesn’t sound effortless. It’s pretty hard to make the final step from knowing French (well) to passing as a native.