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I'm writing this evening with a quick question for you. So I have a friend who has the opportunity to take part in his high school's French exchange student program, and could do so by having its cost paid for.
However, his mother is adamant about not wanting him to attend, due in part to the bombings that occurred in France last year.
My perspective that I do plan on sharing: its a once in a lifetime opportunity, and while it's okay to be concerned with what happened, I could equate it to 9/11. By that, I mean it was a 1 in a million chance of occurring, and since the tragedy occurred, there is much heightened security across the country.
Essentially, I'm asking if my assumption is wrong? For those who live in France or have been tourists of France since the Paris attacks, did you feel safe or do you feel even safer considering what happened?
what kind of death rate per 100,000 population does your friend find acceptable? we can check and make sure where the kid is going falls within those parameters.
I'm writing this evening with a quick question for you. So I have a friend who has the opportunity to take part in his high school's French exchange student program, and could do so by having its cost paid for.
However, his mother is adamant about not wanting him to attend, due in part to the bombings that occurred in France last year.
My perspective that I do plan on sharing: its a once in a lifetime opportunity, and while it's okay to be concerned with what happened, I could equate it to 9/11. By that, I mean it was a 1 in a million chance of occurring, and since the tragedy occurred, there is much heightened security across the country.
Essentially, I'm asking if my assumption is wrong? For those who live in France or have been tourists of France since the Paris attacks, did you feel safe or do you feel even safer considering what happened?
Thanks for the feedback.
Her boy probably has a greater chance of being slaughtered in his own school in the U.S. by some maniac with multiple guns and a knapsack of ammo.
I wonder how many people cancel their vacations to the US due to fear that skyscrapers in their destination city might be bombed or run into by planes. Tourists did used to express that type of concern, after riots in someplace like LA: "We're planning a vacation in Florida, will it be safe?"
You get the idea, OP. Also consider that the school sponsoring the program wouldn't send their kids and faculty over there if it truly wasn't safe.
I wonder how many people cancel their vacations to the US due to fear that skyscrapers in their destination city might be bombed or run into by planes. Tourists did used to express that type of concern, after riots in someplace like LA: "We're planning a vacation in Florida, will it be safe?"
I knew one who was a foreign student at Virginia Tech. She survived out of there alive.
Her boy probably has a greater chance of being slaughtered in his own school in the U.S. by some maniac with multiple guns and a knapsack of ammo.
well said.
It is ironic that an American would worry about "safety" in Europe, and it is not even the first or second time I heard about such concerns. Are you kidding? It is like someone from Venezuela asking if Los Angeles is dangerous or not.
I traveled to Paris 30 days after the bombing and never felt unsafe for a minute. then I spent about a month in the rest of France and had a blast.
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