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<blockquote data-quote="Malika" data-source="post: 523831" data-attributes="member: 11227"><p>I think this is good advice, thank you! And rather counter-intuitive for me. In fact, these villagers are knd of outsiders like me in that they have a holiday house here and come here a few times a year. They are French, though, and have been coming here for a long time... It wasn't even what they were saying that was "off" - everything can be discussed - but the really rather rude and disrespectful way they were speaking. And part of THAT is cultural because the English are so tortuously polite in their dealings, whatever they are actully feeling underneath... Well, a certain breed of middle-class English, I s'pose - couldn't say that for your average football thug. </p><p></p><p>But I think... letting it drop and being civilised and friendly is the best means of approach, and the most diginifed and self-protective.</p><p></p><p>Thanks for the suggestion re Quebec, IC. I'd loveto go but... just couldn't deal with that strange, mangled Canadian French accent <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malika, post: 523831, member: 11227"] I think this is good advice, thank you! And rather counter-intuitive for me. In fact, these villagers are knd of outsiders like me in that they have a holiday house here and come here a few times a year. They are French, though, and have been coming here for a long time... It wasn't even what they were saying that was "off" - everything can be discussed - but the really rather rude and disrespectful way they were speaking. And part of THAT is cultural because the English are so tortuously polite in their dealings, whatever they are actully feeling underneath... Well, a certain breed of middle-class English, I s'pose - couldn't say that for your average football thug. But I think... letting it drop and being civilised and friendly is the best means of approach, and the most diginifed and self-protective. Thanks for the suggestion re Quebec, IC. I'd loveto go but... just couldn't deal with that strange, mangled Canadian French accent :) [/QUOTE]
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