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Paris is EXTREMELY diverse. Tons of Arabs, Africans, SE Asians, Chinese, Eastern Europeans, Japanese and virtually anything else you can think of. I wouldn't doubt if Paris was less than 50% white.
mmm...no... Paris has significant population but hasn't even broken 80-95% white.
I had a teacher who lived there and taught english for about a year, she said that she only met one Asian, a Filipino...who is from the US and a teacher not a student...
She did see Northern Africans... which are Generally Arab.
All those Asians you see in the streets of Paris are Japanese and Chinese Tourists.
mmm...no... Paris has significant population but hasn't even broken 80-95% white.
I had a teacher who lived there and taught english for about a year, she said that she only met one Asian, a Filipino...who is from the US and a teacher not a student...
She did see Northern Africans... which are Generally Arab.
All those Asians you see in the streets of Paris are Japanese and Chinese Tourists.
Paris proper is where the aristocracy and wealthy of France live. You have to get into the suburbs in order to see poverty and racial diversity. Remember all those riots in Paris over the last few years? North African Arabs in northern suburbs.
mmm...no... Paris has significant population but hasn't even broken 80-95% white.
I had a teacher who lived there and taught english for about a year, she said that she only met one Asian, a Filipino...who is from the US and a teacher not a student...
She did see Northern Africans... which are Generally Arab. All those Asians you see in the streets of Paris are Japanese and Chinese Tourists.
That has got to be one of the most bizarre statements I have ever seen on here (and that's saying something). So that teacher of yours stopped every single Asian person she saw in Paris and asked if they were tourists?
Have YOU spent more than a day in Paris? Clearly not. Otherwise there is absolutely no way you could make such an outrageous statement as "all those Asians you see in the streets of Paris are Japanese and Chinese Tourists."
You know, people from Lebanon are also Asian. So are Saudis, Persians, Israelis, Syrians, and most Turks. And there are a bunch of them in Paris, too. Your teacher is able to look at someone and tell if they're Lebanese (Asian) vs. Algerian (African)?
But even more common in Paris are Vietnamese, Laotians and Cambodians. I met a bunch of them when I lived there. They're all over the place. They live there, their kids are schooled there, their parents have emigrated from SE Asia. And now they're Parisians, riding the metro, owning shops and restaurants, running banks and insurance companies, selling bottled water to tourists at Montmartre.
You know, the last time I was in NYC I spent the entire time in Manhattan. I hardly saw any Hispanics while I was there except a couple of custodians. Does that mean that aside from a couple of janitors "the only Hispanics you see in NYC are tourists"? It's an absurd statement to say and even more absurd to believe.
I question the intelligence of that teacher you're citing. And if not her intelligence, then her honesty.
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Truly odd.
