Rulaman

I stayed in Paris, Montpellier and Clermont Ferrand (I have lived there several times during the last 10 years, for different reasons, work, family and research). I am currently studying in a co-sponsored programme in one of the best French universities (but still living in Germany). Parisians are definitely not as understanding as Western Germans if you do not speak their language properly (though in the South and the East that does not happen) and Parisians need tourists but mistreat them - true. The rest.... just lovely. France is the country of joy, beauty and warm (to me). Your question about France opens the door for me to post another comment: have you noticed that even there are many critics to other European countries in the other international fora of Just Landed, very few say that those countries are "sad", or "pessimistic", or "negative"? So there might be some true in there. Regarding Alex's comment on not many Germans living in Brazil... sorry Alex but have you ever put a foot on Brazil's Northeast? Or in Sao Jose dos Campos, near Sao Paulo? Or in Brasilia? Or in Rio? Or.... wherever you go, PLENTY of German professors, engineers, scientists.... all running away from the cold, and looking for kind, sweet people and a mild weather. Paradise, in spite of poverty and inequality. That, without counting, as Proud Brazilian says.... the 3.000.000 German descents living in the Rio Grande do Sul state, in which people still speak German in many occasions (I have been doing research on that there, two years ago). However, Proud Brazilian, Alex, and all those who use this forum for angry exchanges, let us lower our level of tension ) Every country have its own virtues and things to be solved. What is true, however, is that some emerging countries will have a very important say in the world politics and economy very soon: Brazil, India, and of course China....and the old Continent will have to start to take them as serious partners in dialogue. Nothing to worry, though: Brazilian people are really tolerant, and love foreigners. I have lived in Brazil as a foreign person and I have been so well treated that I consider that country my place in the world. Finally, thank you to all you posted sweet and understanding messages about my experience in a German hospital.

Ready to leave Germany - but no hurt feelings 17 mrt 2009, 08:29 - Rapporteer misbruik