Ang mohs are highly romanticized in our culture.. some
of us end up feeling that ang mohs are superior to our own race
(like that forgettable what's-her-name blogger on Girls out loud).
But if u think we have it bad, check out Japan :
'Paris Syndrome' leaves tourists in shock
Japanese visitors found to suffer from psychiatric phenomenon
Reuters
Updated: 3:47 p.m. PT Oct 23, 2006
PARIS - Around a dozen Japanese tourists a year need psychological
treatment after visiting Paris as the reality of unfriendly locals
and scruffy streets clashes with their expectations, a newspaper
reported on Sunday.
"A third of patients get better immediately, a third suffer
relapses and the rest have psychoses," Yousef Mahmoudia, a
psychologist at the Hotel-Dieu hospital, next to Notre Dame
cathedral, told the newspaper Journal du Dimanche.
Already this year, Japan's embassy in Paris has had to repatriate
at least four visitors -- including two women who believed their
hotel room was being bugged and there was a plot against
them.
Previous cases include a man convinced he was the French "Sun
King", Louis XIV, and a woman who believed she was being attacked
with microwaves, the paper cited Japanese embassy official
Yoshikatsu Aoyagi as saying.
"Fragile travelers can lose their bearings. When the idea they have
of the country meets the reality of what they discover it can
provoke a crisis," psychologist Herve Benhamou told the
paper.
The phenomenon, which the newspaper dubbed "Paris Syndrome", was
first detailed in the psychiatric journal Nervure in 2004.
Bernard Delage of Jeunes Japon, an association that helps Japanese
families settle in France, said:
"In Japanese shops, the customer is king, whereas here assistants
hardly look at them ... People using public transport all look
stern, and handbag snatchers increase the ill feeling."
A Japanese woman, Aimi, told the paper:
"For us, Paris is a dream city. All the French are beautiful and
elegant ... And then, when they arrive, the Japanese find the
French character is the complete opposite of their
own."
Some Form of Culture Shock ?
