The debate countering the homesickness is that Japanese travel all over the world. I still yet to see one who end up depressed. I didn’t even know Paris syndrome existed, but if it is a case after visiting Paris, then it must be true. I live in Japan now and have met many people who had visited many places in the world, Hawaii, Guam, Philippines, Bali, South Korea, etc. they all had a great time and had fun. Paris is the first place I’ve heard that has depressing effects to the Japanese, so it must be true.
I can understand them. Of course you want something beautiful to exist in the world. Maybe putting your last hope in Paris. Then realising, Paris has been ruined. That’s devastating. However, It’s not dead. It’s just sleeping. We should bring back old Paris. Old Europe, but keeping some useful advances we’ve made. Like keep antibiotics, health care, education for everyone, and put an end to cars everywhere, more cycling, more walking, less cars, more help for farmers, tailors, artists and artisans to sell their produce, no mass fabricated crap from sweatshop slavery, beautiful architecture, green parks everywhere, real food, put criminals and perverts in jail, so women can walk freely without being harassed.
I visited Paris since I was kid and now I am turning 45 , ( can not remember one summer with out touching Paris ) & , all over the world you will meet different people with diffrent minds / I met one Spanish waiter he moved from. Paris and asked him about some worker in Paris they were serving us unhappy: he answered me simply like that ( you are depressed from local staff but French worked are much more depressed from their situation) means taxes wages and things related to their economy
Paris lost its mysterious, sensual charm a few decades ago (Much like Rio de Janeiro). My advice: Go there only if you have a clear goal (and even better: friends inviting you!). For example, I went to Paris back in 2017 to hear the great Italian pianist Maurizio Pollini give a piano recital at the newly opened Philharmonie de Paris. Was magical indeed, but mostly because of Pollini + my old friends!
Paris is known as city of love and romance because of the novels, it was a dream of probably most Parisian authors to be loved and be romantic because they were deprived of it. Similarly, a lot of perfumes come out of Paris to cover the shitty smells! It was the worst 24 hours of my euro trip!
Haha well put! I didn't mind Paris at all...but I really wasn't particularly enamoured with it either. It was a fine place to visit, with some cool attractions. But yeah, there are many other cities like that as well...
@@superresistant0 Paris is terrible, i can literally drop my feces on the streets and no one cares. Im Dutch and ive done that. Its really ugly and smelly too.
Personne ne vous oblige à venir à Paris balancer vos déchets de Mac Donald, écrire sur les monuments et hurler comme si vous étiez seuls . Vous êtes complètement débiles pour passer vos vacances dans un pays que vous détestez . Foutez nous la paix à la fin.
I think that generally speaking, a lot of novice tourists tend to either overidealize places that they intend to visit, or overplay their alleged negatives. Paris is probably a classic example of the former, where people are conditioned to view it as a showcase city of perfect people, fashion, food and elegance, with everyone slim, young and beautiful, wearing a beret and riding a bicycle with a basket full of baguettes, cheese and wine on their way to a picnic in front of the Eiffel Tower, singing an Edith Piaf song and smiling. And then, upon arrival, the realize that in most ways it's just another city, certainly nice and worth visiting but also not always as clean, tidy, pretty or pleasant as they'd expected, with cracked sidewalks full of dog poop, indifferent or impatient waiters, shop clerks and hotel workers, massive crowds, expensive prices, sirens everywhere, and not at all the Paris as Disney experience that they'd expected. New York City is probably a perfect example of the latter, which many tourists expect to be dirtier, noisier, grittier and more crime-infected than it actually is, having seen countless movies and TV shows that make it seem like that. It's not Paris, of course, but it's also no 1970's movie crime-infested hellhole. I get why people have inflated expectations of places they intend to visit, just not how inflated those expectations are. If you want a synthetic and curated experience that matches your expectations, go to Disneyworld, Las Vegas or a destination resort. But if you visit a real place, expect it to be real, good, bad and everything in-between. It's all part of the fun, I think.
Lets coin "The New York Syndrome" as the Need to run with a coffedrink to try and get a cab. Lol Its just how I as a Swede imagine New Yorkers " always hurying around to get someplace else and not being able to enjoy the moment".
@@jayamilapersson4030 The irony is that rural people in Sweden imagine Stockholm people that way. Maybe New Yorkers imagine that people in New Delhi are rushing even more...?
This is absolutely true, it's not only japanese people though I think it's east-asians in general. That was my experience living in Japan, people REALLY idolize European cities in general and tend to think it's like Disneyland everywhere you go, and that the populations are very homogenic, in reality though it's quite the opposite. Most european countries have SOME beautiful cities with traditional architecture and others are without or it's all mashed up and maybe not super clean everywhere, with the tourist attractions being quite spread out. And often it's way more expensive than they might think since japanese salaries are quite cheap and the yen currency is falling constantly, so the culture shock is everywhere.
Excellent comments! I guess it's just most well-known with Japanese because of...well, the book that coined the term in the first place! And yeah, I think everyone has experienced that sinking feeling when a dream destination turns out to be less dreamy and more ordinary. Sometimes it might be best to let dreams be dreams.
And now they're upset when tourists visit their cities. Maybe the Japanese people need to stay in Japan. Because they don't want foreigners to visit their country.
Clearly, rudeness, loss of tradition, out crowded small businesses, and emergence of ugly behaviour and aesthetics makes Paris depressing. Stockholm is more like the idea of Paris than actual Paris. I’m from Sweden and I’ve lived abroad for many years. Actually coming home made me appreciate this country alot more. People are actually nice here. Not just Stockholm. Gothenburgh, Lund, Uppsala, Malmö, Norrköping, Linköping and all the gorgeous smaller towns. I think Japanese culture is more like Swedish culture.
i thought this video had hundreds of thousands of views, absolutely crazy you aren't getting those numbers! Such well-made content! Curse the algorithm!
Not only the Japanese, but anyone from a clean, advanced, and a civilized country like South Korea or Taiwan suffer from late stage Paris Syndrome as well. It’s crazy. They call it “the China of Europe”.
China is a lot cleaner than paris, anyone who think China is dirty have never actually come to China, I've been there for 2 years, China is hugely underrated.
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To be honest, every person i have meet who has been there feels really upset about the way natives behave with them.
I think Paris suffers from the same 'over-tourism' as many other European capitals and large cities. People need to think outside the box a little and consider smaller cities and areas. I live in Lyon, France, where tourism has increased a lot over the past twenty years but it is still manageable. I've certainly never heard of waiters (or locals) shouting at people or being generally rude. I've heard that locals in places like Barcelona, Lisbon and Berlin, etc. are becoming more hostile to tourists because of over-tourism. As for Paris itself, yes, expectations are probably unrealistically high. Personally, I lived there for 9 months (albeit in the 1990s) and I was never disappointed.
I think I agree with your sentiment about Paris. And yeah, I've heard of many touristy spots that want to get rid of all the drunken "low class" tourists as well. Tourism is a bit of a double edged sword...
This is the same with western Otakus who thinks going to Japan is living out to their anime fantasy's but when they actually arrive there is not like the anime they used to see and they get depressed
I’m guessing that part of what happened was our modern fast-paced, digital world. Paris is supposed to be that slower-paced world of people taking time to drink coffee and muse and smell the flowers. That world is gone, so of course Paris is going to suffer for that-and the already rude and irritable there are even more rude and irritable than ever. Japanese people are also obsessed with French bread, croissants, crème brûlée, and other French desserts, pastries, and baked goods. They do a pretty good job in their imitation of French desserts, in my opinion. (This coming from someone raised on American junk food.)
I've yet to visit Japan, but I hope that I'll get to experience their "faux-French" style so to speak soon. It would be really interesting to see if it's present a lot, or if it's just in certain small places. Oh, and yeah fair point about the fast-paced France of today.
There is one major flaw that the Japanese tourists share with Americans-not finding the time to learn the language! I’ve encountered countless Japanese tourists in Hawaii (USA) that don’t know a word of English and struggle to ask for directions, etc. A lot of signs and other things are translated into Japanese in Hawaii just to help them out (and I know that attitude of blissful ignorance is definitely going to earn the wrath of many French people in France and I don’t blame them). I would be too embarrassed to show my face in France unless I had brushed up on my elementary-level French at the very least-or had someone to translate and communicate, “en français.”
High expectations cause this high disappointment. I went to London with very low expectations. I ended up liking it because it was way better than I had imagined. I imagined a dark gloomy depressed place, but I found a bustling, normal city with sun and trees. 😂 I would go back to London anytime but not to Paris because it disappointed me and I saw a dark gloomy place with stressed out people.
I think the weather plays a big part in how you experience a city! I've been in London when it was foggy and damp, and it does feel a bit greyer and more boring then. But it's absolutely lovely when the sun is out. I think I prefer London over Paris as well either way though...
Rome is a bit less disappointing, but there is no live. I call it a dead city. The only not really disappointing city is venice, but that’s whyvenice is the most crowded city in Europe.
Paris is living off the reputation it had in the 70s, 80s and early 90s when a lot of money was spent on urban development, and the French were indeed the most stylish, well dressed people on the planet. However, France has been through nearly 30 years of economic and social decline, much of it down to the failure of the left and the rise of the right. Not to mention the tight monetary controls of the European Central Bank. In truth, France has suffered a Euro crisis, not as bad as Spain's, Portugal's, Greece's or Italy's - but still pretty bad.
Something that catches my attention is that many people idealize European places like Paris, Rome or Berlin as splendid and romantic places that are out of the ordinary and yes, they are beautiful places but they are not something out of this world and the people are not at all friendly or kind. with the tourist while, to give an example, South America, which with the exception of Argentina, has a terrible reputation among Europeans, Americans and Asians, when they go to some of these countries, they are scared to death and leave there surprised and happy, I think a lot of the blame for this is the It has Hollywood, which is a very lying industry, and also fantasy books by authors of the past.
Yeah, agreed that many people have a very skewed view of some places - like South America. I wonder if it could also be that there used to be more trouble at some point there? And people keep repeating old rumors about how things were?
I have been to many European countries many times, and I will way this about France. It is a nice country. Unique with features to help it distinguish it from other European countries, nice architecture and monuments, people are friendly and all that. But other than that, it is not extremely culturally different to other places. I never expected anything that different, so I wasn’t shocked by anything.
I think that's a fair assessment. It's a nice country alright - but then again, so are most others. There's a lot of history with France though, and I love that part of it all.
@@ThreeStarVagabond Which begs the question What were the Japanese tourists expecting? Did they expect French music to be playing on loud speakers on every corner and people using only bikes to travel and mimes everywhere?
Unfortunately, I think some of them actually are expecting that! But I hear the same things from people who visited Greece 30 years ago, for example. People just forget that things move on, for better or for worse!
Another great Three Star Vagabond video! I like a different take on Paris vs. the usual Paris videos. (While still showing off all you saw!) It IS fascinating how easy it is to build up people, places, and things in our minds. Many friends in the U.S. idealize Europe as an almost utopia...without digging deeper and realizing any place has its issues. Or...how people go the opposite way in the U.S. and make Europe out to be this place with no freedoms...where you wait so long to see a doctor you end up worse. I love travel writers and videographers who show all sides of things. (One of the many reasons Cynthia and I love what you do.) You eventually realize that so many of the popular places are crowded or right next to things not as perfect as photos make them out to be. There's a lot to be said for out-of-the way surprises, and we love when you share those as well.
Thanks a lot! I love exploring - but lately I've been trying to think of how I can put a twist on things. Just reporting what I see is rarely...well...very interesting. Especially for well-known touristy places like Paris. It's definitely easy to inflate your expectations (or fears) about a place. In one way I envy people who do it, though. Imagine a time when the world was fresh and filled with wonder! When one actually believed that paradise could be found on a lonely beach, or that people of a particular country would be completely different to the grey mass in your own city... I still long for that sense of wonder, and being surprised. Paris might not be the best place for that though - but there are still surprises waiting out there :D
@@ThreeStarVagabond Good travel videos also remind me that it's often smaller places where people find surprises. And then, when looking at it that way, it's easier to see nicer things about where you live. I often share hiking or other outdoors things and people think I'm someplace far away. They just convince themselves, it seems, that you have to go somewhere far off to find adventure...when it's often all around us.
@@ChristopherGronlund So very true! Something that I've learned while doing TH-cam is that there's so much to explore in your own country, and in your own town. I love researching far away places, but I also love finding something new just around the corner at home. It doesn't matter if it's a new viewpoint, or a really crappy pub, or a nice spot of nature that can be used for urban camping...
I’m curious as to what country/city Swedes have to visit as a status symbol? Most people aren’t aware that culture isn’t fossilized. Cultures, people, change throughout generations. I have visited Sweden and I found it to be a beautiful country that is clean with polite people. I did manage to avoid the Stockholm Syndrome when I visited this beautiful but expensive city.
Oh that's a difficult question! I mean, it depends on what type of person it is I'd say. Most Swedes are impressed by the general glitz and glamour spots I'd imagine. Maybe places like the Seychelles, Maldives, St Tropez and so on? I honestly wouldn't know.... But good job on finding your way around Stockholm despite the ridiculous cost of everything :D
Didnt know about the Paris Syndrom, but the two Citys which did disappoint me most were Paris and Stockholm. Indeed the citys are ok and worth visiting, but if you have expectations and they dont fit in reality, it is a disappointment then.
That's true for most places, isn't it? It's hard to meet the expectations of a fantasy destination... I try not to expect too much so that I can get pleasantly surprised. It doesn't happen all that often though, unfortunately...
@@ThreeStarVagabond if you have too high expectations like the Japanese ;). But for example Amalficoast was even better then expected. It depends how a place is labeled and Paris didnt match the labeling with savoir vivre, fashion and cool city and Stockholm is not the big Bullerbü ;)
@@michaelmuller9385 That's so funny - I was thinking of Capri when I wrote that bit about being pleasantly surprised! But yeah, agreed. And I can't even imagine the disappointment if one expects Stockholm to be a cozy place :D
Hi. Nicely unusual and interesting video, mate. Have you ever heard of the Stendhal syndrome, named after the french writer who suffered from it (alongside many other people)? It’s, somehow, the opposite of the Paris syndrome and can happen when in Florence: too much art, too many beautiful buildings… If you’re not prepared, the shock can be so overwhelming you turn a bit insane. Cheers😉
That's so interesting! No, I'd never heard of that syndrome before - and I'm googling up on it now. Sounds completely hilarious (but of course not funny at all when it actually happens to someone). Such an anti-climax to travel to a magnificent place and then *boom* - chest pains and weirdness...
I expérienced personally the famous Stendhal syndrome while in Florence. But it has nothing to do with a disappointment like the would be Paris syndrome. It is a kind of aesthetic febrility. I think a foreign tourist can experience it in Paris when visiting so many museums.
@@jean-pauldoguet8342 I think the closest I've been is when I'm seeing too many interesting places in a short time, so I become a bit jaded. "Oh, another magnificent view. Oh, another really exciting experience."
@@ThreeStarVagabond it is not a matter of views it is linked with works of art, such as paintings and sculptures. Stendhal speaks of the Santa Croce church. I was shaken by the Santa Croce museum.
Can I know which part of Paris has that kind of walkway with nature at around minute 5:00 in the video?? I heard other vloggers say there is no green space in Paris.
They're not far off... That's the Jardin de la Tour Eiffel. I approached it from the south side, and it's a lovely park surrounding the Eiffel Tower. But it just might be the only green spot in the city!
@@ThreeStarVagabond Good to know..Never been to Paris but I have been watching your videos and they inspire me to know more about places and eventually, travel. Thank you!❤️
@@YogaPinay Well, I'm biased but I always recommend to travel - it's exciting to discover new places. This was actually my first time in Paris as well, so I had a lot of fun exploring the city :D
Hi. Just have a look at GoogleEarth and you’ll get your answer. Bois de Vincennes, Bois de Boulogne, Jardin des Tuileries, Parc Monceau, Jardin du Luxembourg, Champs de Mars, Parc des Batignolles… are just some of the many large parks and gardens I can think of all across the city.
Interesting. Those crowds around the Mona Lisa would shock and depress the heck out of me! I wonder if classic movies ever contributed to the syndrome - seeing glorified and romantic views of Paris on screen, and the shock experienced when reality hits - where are Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire when you need them! Not having been fortunate enough to visit Paris, I query the “snooty” reference though. My sister was just in Paris and also toured Italy. She said the Italians were very rude whereas the French were not. As always, an enjoyable and informative vlog with great scenery, tack så mycket
Yeah I was prepared that it would be crowded around the Mona Lisa, but it was still pretty horrifying to see. Oh yeah, movies are probably a really big part of it all I could imagine. And music maybe... Haha, I don't mind French people at all - I just had to add the "snooty" bit because of the stereotype! I think there are stressed and rude people everywhere, just like there are awesome and kind people everywhere too. Oh and thank you so much! :D
@@ThreeStarVagabond quite right! The whole world seems stressed out right now - financially, housing wise and energy wise- I don’t think there is a place on earth not experiencing anxiety. Thank goodness we have vloggers like yourself to bring up information, fun and not just a little humour! I have Covid at the moment (managed to avoid it for three years but it finally caught me) and your vlog has been a bright spark on an otherwise miserable day😝
@@donnamortensen959 Oh no, that sucks so bad! I have a colleague or two who got Covid as well recently. So far I think I've managed to avoid it completely... But just because I said that I'm bound to catch it any day now! If I stay healthy I'll try to keep doing more or less interesting vlogs at least :D
WWII was between Europeans, not between Europeans and others. Not sure what you're getting at here. Paris is just fine. It's tourists with unrealistic expectations who are the problem.
The Paris Syndrome is when the Paris trip is over and realised how much the trip cost! 😱😭🤑 Watching Miyazaki movies would have had the same experience.
We are talking after all about a city who exerted more of its national will “fighting” Disneyland and Big Macs than they did against the Nazis and failed in all three.
There are several super hot cities in France perfect for a decent holiday, including: NICE, the city on the beach of Cóte d´Azur (with surroundings, Èze, Tète de Chien etc.) STRASBOURG on the Rhine in Alsace (with surroundings, the wine route, Les Vosges castles, Riquewihr, Ribeauvillé, Colmar, etc.) Paris was never really all that much a French city worth visiting. You will probably waste most of your holiday in the Paris Metro (subway). Best thing to do in Paris is likely sitting on the stairs on Montmartre during the sunset with your romantic partner and a bottle of cheap wine. Doesn´t really make it all that special, however. Louvre? Versailles? Jim Morrisons grave? Forget it.
I really loved Montmartre and a lot of the architecture in Paris, but generally I agree that Nice is nicer (no pun intended). Never been to Strasbourg, though. I hear it's one of the best places in Europe for Christmas markets!
Surprisedly the Paris France that the Japanese and other Asian countries fantasize so much fits more the description of Monaco 🇲🇨 It matches all the luxurious high expectations that they assume with Paris France. 🤔 Imagine if the Japanese man that began the whole Paris syndrome decided to save up all his life savings and took a trip to Monaco 🇲🇨 to wash down the disappointment of Paris France, only to realize “Oh my freaking gosh!? It was France’s neighbor all along!” 🤯😵😭 Sometimes the country of your traveling dreams is where you least expect.
The fact is that people of all kinds are so mediocre looking when they travel and the people who live in any place have been programmed by fashion and modern trends to dress in such casual cheap fashion that the entire world looks identical now. So wherever we travel we find that the people who live there look the same as where we have departed from. Once the French had a special style , and the Germans possibly also, and the Swiss , and the Asian peoples and the African peoples and the peoples of the United States had their own fashions . But every body wears cheap sweat shirts and running shoes and the sort of sports clothes and basball caps .Also they listen to the same sort of American kind of Rock Music in one kind or another. There is no regional difference except maybe in the Islamic nations or some Indian nations . The Latin nations have some variations with salsa but it is still equally Westernised as I describe. My visits to Madrid and other Spanish cities found their central shopping districts all modernised and boring recently wheras they were so charming and with local character 30-40 years ago. And the only thing to get any stimulus from is therefore the language being spoken , and the buildings , and the art in the museums. ( I live in Britain and for a long time now our towns and cities which once had unique and different characters have been ruined by mass produced shopping mall and giant supermarket culture development.)This is the result! People go expecting an experience of a lifetime but they are part of these armies of samelike tourists who follow the same routes doing the same things and then wonder why they feel unfulfilled!
I think you're on to something... Just to expand on that, I traveled to the US recently and did both "usual" touristy things and more unexpected things. The big and famous attractions were all good, but nothing special - but the small unexpected ones were probably the highlight. It might not be like that for everyone, but for me at least there really needs to be a bit of exploration involved to enjoy a place fully.
@@ThreeStarVagabond Precisely! If the "herd" will not separate itself from each other , they are doomed to experience the sameness of each other perpetually and it rubs off upon the environments they go to ,sadly. Even there are those climbing high mountains in the Alps who leave their trash behind them,as if it is nothing to do with them the moment they finish the consuming of it!
Tourist need to visit deauville, dinan, Lille, Lyon, Annecy, biarritz, and other cleaner albeit smaller French places….paris is wayyyyyy overcrowded plus add millions of tourists visiting the same places over and over on top of that.
Baguettes *and* berets? You must have read too much Tin Tin or something. 😃 I'd personally expect them all to be sitting around having coffee and éclairs. 7:13 - That's a fancy, easy-to-carry camera you've got there. What's the model?
Haha what, isn't France just like in Tin Tin and Spirou and Gaston?! I'm shocked! It's a DJI Pocket 2, and I absolutely love it - nice portable 4k camera, and I have a wireless mic for it. But I just ordered myself a Pocket 3 that was released this month...
@@tumarfa It's so much more convenient to have a separate camera instead of using the phone. Especially if I want to look something up at the same time. This is really my best camera ever ^_^
That isekai kind of exists already. A guy meets with the godess who changes her mind and curses him to not understand or comunicate with humans because she finds him ugly. Tsukimichi: moonlight fantasy. And there are isekais where magic isint all powerful it has many uses but also many things magic cant fix.
Haha dammit! And Tsukimichi has been a manga since 2015, so I'm really late on that idea then. Oh well, thanks for the tips either way! It's difficult to have an original idea....
@@ThreeStarVagabond I agree with you, great minds think alike and I also think "Kamikatsu" or "working for god in a world without gods" also is similar to that. It kind of makes fun of other isekais, guy dies and is reborn waking up by a girl litterally rubbing his "stick" and there is no guild in the first village he gets a dagger and thinks they wants for him to slay some goblins but they just want help harvesting grapes he end up harvesting too much and they wonder how some of it will get spoiled so our guy makes wine and so on.
@@jayamilapersson4030 Haha, sounds like a good one to check out! But right now I'm hooked on non-isekai stuff... Frieren, Apothecary, Eighty Six, etc - too many good new series!
@@ThreeStarVagabond I agree have wathed a few of frierien but I usually try to wait until the season is finished so I can binge it. But I plan to watch the ones you mentioned.
@@jayamilapersson4030 Frieren is my choice for top anime of 2023...unless it turns really bad towards the end. Let's hope not! But yeah the others are excellent too ^_^
Also, I honestly don't understand where all these unrealistic expectations, both good and bad, come from. I mean I do understand where they come from, movies, TV shows, books, travelogues, posters, etc. I just don't get how people are foolish and naive enough to literally believe them, especially given all the far more realistic counternarratives that are present everywhere and hard to avoid. Do people choose to be naive in the hope that their idealized version of the places they visit will turn out to be true even though deep down they realize that it's unlikely, because vacations are supposed to be ideal and they don't want to spoil that ideal, or are they actually naive and if so what explains that? I guess that it's sort of like politics, in which people choose to believe what they prefer to believe, whether it's based on known facts or obvious lies. People create their own realities that have as much or as little to do with actual reality as pleases them, and when the two realities collide, the reaction tends to depend on how close the two are. As a traveler I've learned to dial down my expectations and enjoy some of the little things about new places, like markets, parks, quiet side streets and brief but pleasant encounters with regular people, and not just make it about the obvious tourist guidebook highlights.
@@ThreeStarVagabond Try to know about the French culture. Try to re-establish it. 🤔 Atleast a bit for now. Try to know about Paris which exists in hearts of the Japanese. Paris can use japanese technolgies. This is why japanese are not allowing migrants. 🤔
Great Video, I think the problem is people fantasizes about Paris and get a image of it, then when they get there reality sets in. The Japanese syndrome is caused by there politeness and not speaking badly, so the when they see it there brains go into overload with bad thoughts witch goes against their culture and that = The Paris Syndrome 😂 .
Among the 35 million international tourists in Paris, 90% are delighted with their experience, 80% are in fact repeat visitors and about the same amount wants to go to Paris again. That's how you become the most visited city in the world for decades despite the urban legends.
If you fall into a depression while travelling as a result of a culture shock, you very like had symptoms of it already being at home. Holidays are just holidays. It would be giving far too much importance to it.
The Paris Syndrome happens everywhere including in Japan, happened to all the nationalities including the French and concerns about nobody every year. Maybe 20 Japanese tourists in Paris per year over millions of Japanese tourists. That's a psychiatric condition and the problem isn't really the place but people not fit to travel.
The debate countering the homesickness is that Japanese travel all over the world. I still yet to see one who end up depressed. I didn’t even know Paris syndrome existed, but if it is a case after visiting Paris, then it must be true. I live in Japan now and have met many people who had visited many places in the world, Hawaii, Guam, Philippines, Bali, South Korea, etc. they all had a great time and had fun. Paris is the first place I’ve heard that has depressing effects to the Japanese, so it must be true.
Old Paris is dead. The Paris that the authors wrote about is what the Japanese read. That is why they are disappointed.
Yeah, that's a pretty simple explanation!
I can understand them. Of course you want something beautiful to exist in the world. Maybe putting your last hope in Paris. Then realising, Paris has been ruined. That’s devastating. However, It’s not dead. It’s just sleeping. We should bring back old Paris. Old Europe, but keeping some useful advances we’ve made. Like keep antibiotics, health care, education for everyone, and put an end to cars everywhere, more cycling, more walking, less cars, more help for farmers, tailors, artists and artisans to sell their produce, no mass fabricated crap from sweatshop slavery, beautiful architecture, green parks everywhere, real food, put criminals and perverts in jail, so women can walk freely without being harassed.
Old Paris never was. Paris had always alot of crime & vileness. Atleast since marie antoinette.
@@azumishimizu1880French revolution?🤔
I visited Paris since I was kid and now I am turning 45 , ( can not remember one summer with out touching Paris ) & , all over the world you will meet different people with diffrent minds / I met one Spanish waiter he moved from. Paris and asked him about some worker in Paris they were serving us unhappy: he answered me simply like that ( you are depressed from local staff but French worked are much more depressed from their situation) means taxes wages and things related to their economy
Paris lost its mysterious, sensual charm a few decades ago (Much like Rio de Janeiro). My advice: Go there only if you have a clear goal (and even better: friends inviting you!). For example, I went to Paris back in 2017 to hear the great Italian pianist Maurizio Pollini give a piano recital at the newly opened Philharmonie de Paris. Was magical indeed, but mostly because of Pollini + my old friends!
Paris is known as city of love and romance because of the novels, it was a dream of probably most Parisian authors to be loved and be romantic because they were deprived of it. Similarly, a lot of perfumes come out of Paris to cover the shitty smells! It was the worst 24 hours of my euro trip!
Haha well put! I didn't mind Paris at all...but I really wasn't particularly enamoured with it either. It was a fine place to visit, with some cool attractions. But yeah, there are many other cities like that as well...
You might also make the case that many Japanese feel deprived of love and so they come to Paria thinking that the void can be filled 🤔
@@superresistant0 Paris is terrible, i can literally drop my feces on the streets and no one cares. Im Dutch and ive done that. Its really ugly and smelly too.
24hrs?
Personne ne vous oblige à venir à Paris balancer vos déchets de Mac Donald, écrire sur les monuments et hurler comme si vous étiez seuls . Vous êtes complètement débiles pour passer vos vacances dans un pays que vous détestez . Foutez nous la paix à la fin.
I think that generally speaking, a lot of novice tourists tend to either overidealize places that they intend to visit, or overplay their alleged negatives.
Paris is probably a classic example of the former, where people are conditioned to view it as a showcase city of perfect people, fashion, food and elegance, with everyone slim, young and beautiful, wearing a beret and riding a bicycle with a basket full of baguettes, cheese and wine on their way to a picnic in front of the Eiffel Tower, singing an Edith Piaf song and smiling.
And then, upon arrival, the realize that in most ways it's just another city, certainly nice and worth visiting but also not always as clean, tidy, pretty or pleasant as they'd expected, with cracked sidewalks full of dog poop, indifferent or impatient waiters, shop clerks and hotel workers, massive crowds, expensive prices, sirens everywhere, and not at all the Paris as Disney experience that they'd expected.
New York City is probably a perfect example of the latter, which many tourists expect to be dirtier, noisier, grittier and more crime-infected than it actually is, having seen countless movies and TV shows that make it seem like that. It's not Paris, of course, but it's also no 1970's movie crime-infested hellhole.
I get why people have inflated expectations of places they intend to visit, just not how inflated those expectations are. If you want a synthetic and curated experience that matches your expectations, go to Disneyworld, Las Vegas or a destination resort. But if you visit a real place, expect it to be real, good, bad and everything in-between. It's all part of the fun, I think.
Didn't know about Paris Syndrome. I wonder if there's more syndromes named after other cities besides Paris and Stolkholm. Great video!
That's actually a good question! I guess there must be - people are very quick to invent catchy names like that... But cheers either way :D
Lets coin "The New York Syndrome" as the Need to run with a coffedrink to try and get a cab. Lol Its just how I as a Swede imagine New Yorkers " always hurying around to get someplace else and not being able to enjoy the moment".
@@jayamilapersson4030 The irony is that rural people in Sweden imagine Stockholm people that way. Maybe New Yorkers imagine that people in New Delhi are rushing even more...?
Stendhal and Jerusalem syndrom
This is absolutely true, it's not only japanese people though I think it's east-asians in general. That was my experience living in Japan, people REALLY idolize European cities in general and tend to think it's like Disneyland everywhere you go, and that the populations are very homogenic, in reality though it's quite the opposite.
Most european countries have SOME beautiful cities with traditional architecture and others are without or it's all mashed up and maybe not super clean everywhere, with the tourist attractions being quite spread out. And often it's way more expensive than they might think since japanese salaries are quite cheap and the yen currency is falling constantly, so the culture shock is everywhere.
Excellent comments! I guess it's just most well-known with Japanese because of...well, the book that coined the term in the first place!
And yeah, I think everyone has experienced that sinking feeling when a dream destination turns out to be less dreamy and more ordinary. Sometimes it might be best to let dreams be dreams.
And now they're upset when tourists visit their cities. Maybe the Japanese people need to stay in Japan. Because they don't want foreigners to visit their country.
Clearly, rudeness, loss of tradition, out crowded small businesses, and emergence of ugly behaviour and aesthetics makes Paris depressing. Stockholm is more like the idea of Paris than actual Paris. I’m from Sweden and I’ve lived abroad for many years. Actually coming home made me appreciate this country alot more. People are actually nice here. Not just Stockholm. Gothenburgh, Lund, Uppsala, Malmö, Norrköping, Linköping and all the gorgeous smaller towns. I think Japanese culture is more like Swedish culture.
i thought this video had hundreds of thousands of views, absolutely crazy you aren't getting those numbers! Such well-made content! Curse the algorithm!
That would have been a nice surprise to wake up to. But alas! I'm really happy to read this though - you totally made my day now ^_^
I am with the critics of the paris syndrom. It's not only the japanese. Lots of americans and other tourists get that, too.
Not only the Japanese, but anyone from a clean, advanced, and a civilized country like South Korea or Taiwan suffer from late stage Paris Syndrome as well. It’s crazy. They call it “the China of Europe”.
Interesting! I wasn't aware that it affected people from that many other countries the same way.
When I lived in Korea it smelled of pee and was very dirty. I can definitely imagine Seoul syndrome for all the American k-pop fans.
Stay out of Daerim-dong, there are way too many uncivilized Chinese-Koreans there.
The Paris Syndrome happens everywhere including in Japan and Taiwan and concerns about nobody every year.
China is a lot cleaner than paris, anyone who think China is dirty have never actually come to China, I've been there for 2 years, China is hugely underrated.
To be honest, every person i have meet who has been there feels really upset about the way natives behave with them.
That's pretty common yeah. I didn't really have any bad encounters like that, I think. But it was just a day trip after all!
I think Paris suffers from the same 'over-tourism' as many other European capitals and large cities. People need to think outside the box a little and consider smaller cities and areas. I live in Lyon, France, where tourism has increased a lot over the past twenty years but it is still manageable. I've certainly never heard of waiters (or locals) shouting at people or being generally rude.
I've heard that locals in places like Barcelona, Lisbon and Berlin, etc. are becoming more hostile to tourists because of over-tourism.
As for Paris itself, yes, expectations are probably unrealistically high. Personally, I lived there for 9 months (albeit in the 1990s) and I was never disappointed.
I think I agree with your sentiment about Paris. And yeah, I've heard of many touristy spots that want to get rid of all the drunken "low class" tourists as well. Tourism is a bit of a double edged sword...
This is the same with western Otakus who thinks going to Japan is living out to their anime fantasy's but when they actually arrive there is not like the anime they used to see and they get depressed
Good point! And I guess I'll see for myself in 2025 when I finally get to see Japan (most likely). I'll walk around with crushed dreams then
I’m guessing that part of what happened was our modern fast-paced, digital world. Paris is supposed to be that slower-paced world of people taking time to drink coffee and muse and smell the flowers. That world is gone, so of course Paris is going to suffer for that-and the already rude and irritable there are even more rude and irritable than ever.
Japanese people are also obsessed with French bread, croissants, crème brûlée, and other French desserts, pastries, and baked goods. They do a pretty good job in their imitation of French desserts, in my opinion. (This coming from someone raised on American junk food.)
I've yet to visit Japan, but I hope that I'll get to experience their "faux-French" style so to speak soon. It would be really interesting to see if it's present a lot, or if it's just in certain small places. Oh, and yeah fair point about the fast-paced France of today.
There is one major flaw that the Japanese tourists share with Americans-not finding the time to learn the language! I’ve encountered countless Japanese tourists in Hawaii (USA) that don’t know a word of English and struggle to ask for directions, etc. A lot of signs and other things are translated into Japanese in Hawaii just to help them out (and I know that attitude of blissful ignorance is definitely going to earn the wrath of many French people in France and I don’t blame them). I would be too embarrassed to show my face in France unless I had brushed up on my elementary-level French at the very least-or had someone to translate and communicate, “en français.”
I had that feeling when I returned to Berlin years later but happily did not feel that way when I returned to Copenhagen
Glad to hear that! I guess I always just thought of Berlin and Copenhagen as nice cities but nothing special - so I've never had a shock like that
High expectations cause this high disappointment. I went to London with very low expectations. I ended up liking it because it was way better than I had imagined. I imagined a dark gloomy depressed place, but I found a bustling, normal city with sun and trees. 😂 I would go back to London anytime but not to Paris because it disappointed me and I saw a dark gloomy place with stressed out people.
I think the weather plays a big part in how you experience a city! I've been in London when it was foggy and damp, and it does feel a bit greyer and more boring then. But it's absolutely lovely when the sun is out. I think I prefer London over Paris as well either way though...
Paris is overrated, over crowded and over exaggerated when it comes to its beauty.
Well put. And that goes for many other places too I think.
Quit Paris, try Zurich
@@cfcblue8 Or both if possible :D
So does London. Too many pickpockets, scammers, and muggings on people wearing luxury watches.
Rome is a bit less disappointing, but there is no live.
I call it a dead city.
The only not really disappointing city is venice, but that’s whyvenice is the most crowded city in Europe.
70年代～80年代は「西洋かぶれ」なんて言葉が流行るくらい西欧の物・スタイルが溢れかえり、日本経済が好調なこともあって多くの人が西欧ブランドに食いついた。
高級、ファッションブランド（お洒落）というイメージが定着し、旅行広告でも「憧れのフランス」という見出しは多く見かけた。
「ヴェルサイユの薔薇」も一つの影響力があり、日本人には無い金髪、青い目、スタイルがよく、美しい貴族というような麗人のイメージがヨーロッパ人像になってしまった。
（現在でも、ヨーロッパ人、アメリカ人は金髪、青目で描かれることがやたら多いｗ）
高級感を出すためにアパート名もフランス語が多い。
That's just a type of racism.
Paris is living off the reputation it had in the 70s, 80s and early 90s when a lot of money was spent on urban development, and the French were indeed the most stylish, well dressed people on the planet.
However, France has been through nearly 30 years of economic and social decline, much of it down to the failure of the left and the rise of the right. Not to mention the tight monetary controls of the European Central Bank.
In truth, France has suffered a Euro crisis, not as bad as Spain's, Portugal's, Greece's or Italy's - but still pretty bad.
Something that catches my attention is that many people idealize European places like Paris, Rome or Berlin as splendid and romantic places that are out of the ordinary and yes, they are beautiful places but they are not something out of this world and the people are not at all friendly or kind. with the tourist while, to give an example, South America, which with the exception of Argentina, has a terrible reputation among Europeans, Americans and Asians, when they go to some of these countries, they are scared to death and leave there surprised and happy, I think a lot of the blame for this is the It has Hollywood, which is a very lying industry, and also fantasy books by authors of the past.
Yeah, agreed that many people have a very skewed view of some places - like South America. I wonder if it could also be that there used to be more trouble at some point there? And people keep repeating old rumors about how things were?
In most of Europe, Parisians are known to be assholes.
I have been to many European countries many times, and I will way this about France.
It is a nice country. Unique with features to help it distinguish it from other European countries, nice architecture and monuments, people are friendly and all that. But other than that, it is not extremely culturally different to other places. I never expected anything that different, so I wasn’t shocked by anything.
I think that's a fair assessment. It's a nice country alright - but then again, so are most others. There's a lot of history with France though, and I love that part of it all.
@@ThreeStarVagabond
Which begs the question
What were the Japanese tourists expecting?
Did they expect French music to be playing on loud speakers on every corner and people using only bikes to travel and mimes everywhere?
Unfortunately, I think some of them actually are expecting that! But I hear the same things from people who visited Greece 30 years ago, for example. People just forget that things move on, for better or for worse!
Just go to Italy if you want cobble stoned streets. People are much friendlier.
Japanese prefer Marseille or Toulouse than Paris, especially small commune and rural towns.
Another great Three Star Vagabond video! I like a different take on Paris vs. the usual Paris videos. (While still showing off all you saw!)
It IS fascinating how easy it is to build up people, places, and things in our minds. Many friends in the U.S. idealize Europe as an almost utopia...without digging deeper and realizing any place has its issues. Or...how people go the opposite way in the U.S. and make Europe out to be this place with no freedoms...where you wait so long to see a doctor you end up worse.
I love travel writers and videographers who show all sides of things. (One of the many reasons Cynthia and I love what you do.) You eventually realize that so many of the popular places are crowded or right next to things not as perfect as photos make them out to be. There's a lot to be said for out-of-the way surprises, and we love when you share those as well.
Thanks a lot! I love exploring - but lately I've been trying to think of how I can put a twist on things. Just reporting what I see is rarely...well...very interesting. Especially for well-known touristy places like Paris.
It's definitely easy to inflate your expectations (or fears) about a place. In one way I envy people who do it, though. Imagine a time when the world was fresh and filled with wonder! When one actually believed that paradise could be found on a lonely beach, or that people of a particular country would be completely different to the grey mass in your own city... I still long for that sense of wonder, and being surprised. Paris might not be the best place for that though - but there are still surprises waiting out there :D
@@ThreeStarVagabond Good travel videos also remind me that it's often smaller places where people find surprises. And then, when looking at it that way, it's easier to see nicer things about where you live.
I often share hiking or other outdoors things and people think I'm someplace far away. They just convince themselves, it seems, that you have to go somewhere far off to find adventure...when it's often all around us.
@@ChristopherGronlund So very true! Something that I've learned while doing TH-cam is that there's so much to explore in your own country, and in your own town. I love researching far away places, but I also love finding something new just around the corner at home. It doesn't matter if it's a new viewpoint, or a really crappy pub, or a nice spot of nature that can be used for urban camping...
I’m curious as to what country/city Swedes have to visit as a status symbol? Most people aren’t aware that culture isn’t fossilized. Cultures, people, change throughout generations.
I have visited Sweden and I found it to be a beautiful country that is clean with polite people. I did manage to avoid the Stockholm Syndrome when I visited this beautiful but expensive city.
Oh that's a difficult question! I mean, it depends on what type of person it is I'd say. Most Swedes are impressed by the general glitz and glamour spots I'd imagine. Maybe places like the Seychelles, Maldives, St Tropez and so on? I honestly wouldn't know....
But good job on finding your way around Stockholm despite the ridiculous cost of everything :D
Many tourists think that Paris is an entertainment venue like Disneyland. But then they find themselves in a real living city😂
Well put ^_^
Didnt know about the Paris Syndrom, but the two Citys which did disappoint me most were Paris and Stockholm. Indeed the citys are ok and worth visiting, but if you have expectations and they dont fit in reality, it is a disappointment then.
That's true for most places, isn't it? It's hard to meet the expectations of a fantasy destination... I try not to expect too much so that I can get pleasantly surprised. It doesn't happen all that often though, unfortunately...
@@ThreeStarVagabond if you have too high expectations like the Japanese ;). But for example Amalficoast was even better then expected. It depends how a place is labeled and Paris didnt match the labeling with savoir vivre, fashion and cool city and Stockholm is not the big Bullerbü ;)
@@michaelmuller9385 That's so funny - I was thinking of Capri when I wrote that bit about being pleasantly surprised! But yeah, agreed. And I can't even imagine the disappointment if one expects Stockholm to be a cozy place :D
Very good! I love this presentation :)
Thank you so much! Happy to hear that :)
Paris was really beautiful in the 60’s. It hasn’t been the same since then..
It's a pity that I couldn't see it back then!
Hi. Nicely unusual and interesting video, mate. Have you ever heard of the Stendhal syndrome, named after the french writer who suffered from it (alongside many other people)? It’s, somehow, the opposite of the Paris syndrome and can happen when in Florence: too much art, too many beautiful buildings… If you’re not prepared, the shock can be so overwhelming you turn a bit insane. Cheers😉
That's so interesting! No, I'd never heard of that syndrome before - and I'm googling up on it now. Sounds completely hilarious (but of course not funny at all when it actually happens to someone). Such an anti-climax to travel to a magnificent place and then *boom* - chest pains and weirdness...
I expérienced personally the famous Stendhal syndrome while in Florence. But it has nothing to do with a disappointment like the would be Paris syndrome. It is a kind of aesthetic febrility. I think a foreign tourist can experience it in Paris when visiting so many museums.
@@jean-pauldoguet8342 I think the closest I've been is when I'm seeing too many interesting places in a short time, so I become a bit jaded. "Oh, another magnificent view. Oh, another really exciting experience."
@@ThreeStarVagabond it is not a matter of views it is linked with works of art, such as paintings and sculptures. Stendhal speaks of the Santa Croce church. I was shaken by the Santa Croce museum.
@@jean-pauldoguet8342 Fair enough! Oh, I just looked at the Croce church from outside - never explored the museum
Can I know which part of Paris has that kind of walkway with nature at around minute 5:00 in the video?? I heard other vloggers say there is no green space in Paris.
They're not far off... That's the Jardin de la Tour Eiffel. I approached it from the south side, and it's a lovely park surrounding the Eiffel Tower. But it just might be the only green spot in the city!
@@ThreeStarVagabond Good to know..Never been to Paris but I have been watching your videos and they inspire me to know more about places and eventually, travel. Thank you!❤️
@@YogaPinay Well, I'm biased but I always recommend to travel - it's exciting to discover new places. This was actually my first time in Paris as well, so I had a lot of fun exploring the city :D
Hi. Just have a look at GoogleEarth and you’ll get your answer. Bois de Vincennes, Bois de Boulogne, Jardin des Tuileries, Parc Monceau, Jardin du Luxembourg, Champs de Mars, Parc des Batignolles… are just some of the many large parks and gardens I can think of all across the city.
Interesting. Those crowds around the Mona Lisa would shock and depress the heck out of me! I wonder if classic movies ever contributed to the syndrome - seeing glorified and romantic views of Paris on screen, and the shock experienced when reality hits - where are Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire when you need them! Not having been fortunate enough to visit Paris, I query the “snooty” reference though. My sister was just in Paris and also toured Italy. She said the Italians were very rude whereas the French were not. As always, an enjoyable and informative vlog with great scenery, tack så mycket
Yeah I was prepared that it would be crowded around the Mona Lisa, but it was still pretty horrifying to see. Oh yeah, movies are probably a really big part of it all I could imagine. And music maybe... Haha, I don't mind French people at all - I just had to add the "snooty" bit because of the stereotype! I think there are stressed and rude people everywhere, just like there are awesome and kind people everywhere too. Oh and thank you so much! :D
@@ThreeStarVagabond quite right! The whole world seems stressed out right now - financially, housing wise and energy wise- I don’t think there is a place on earth not experiencing anxiety. Thank goodness we have vloggers like yourself to bring up information, fun and not just a little humour! I have Covid at the moment (managed to avoid it for three years but it finally caught me) and your vlog has been a bright spark on an otherwise miserable day😝
@@donnamortensen959 Oh no, that sucks so bad! I have a colleague or two who got Covid as well recently. So far I think I've managed to avoid it completely... But just because I said that I'm bound to catch it any day now! If I stay healthy I'll try to keep doing more or less interesting vlogs at least :D
@@ThreeStarVagabond fingers crossed! Looking forward to seeing more vlogs 👍
Paris today reminds me of german propaganda from world war 2 warning of what would happen if Europeans lost the war.
An absolute tragedy.
WWII was between Europeans, not between Europeans and others. Not sure what you're getting at here. Paris is just fine. It's tourists with unrealistic expectations who are the problem.
The Paris Syndrome is when the Paris trip is over and realised how much the trip cost! 😱😭🤑 Watching Miyazaki movies would have had the same experience.
Haha! Well, it's cheaper than visiting the US at least. Damn.
We are talking after all about a city who exerted more of its national will “fighting” Disneyland and Big Macs than they did against the Nazis and failed in all three.
I don't often laugh out loud at a comment, but damn that was funny!
@@ThreeStarVagabond hahaha, well I might sound a bit petty but the french are proper a**holes to us Albanians so I’ll take any opportunity I get
Ouch, sorry to hear that! I actually know very little about that whole interaction. In fact, I know very little about Albania come to think of it...
Paris is fine, it's not the worst place in the world as some people will make you believe, there is so many things to do and see.
Agreed, it's a good city with a lot to see. Not super special - but not bad at all either.
I went to Paris in 2000. Weather was terrible, city was filthy and polluted and I didn't meet anyone nice
Pretty standard Paris visit then
Paris is a beautiful city though. But it's not the fantasy either. But you can't deny it's still a charming city nonetheless
Totally agree! It's not a dream destination - but I'm extremely happy to have visited and explored it. Some amazing sights there
There are several super hot cities in France perfect for a decent holiday, including:
NICE, the city on the beach of Cóte d´Azur (with surroundings, Èze, Tète de Chien etc.)
STRASBOURG on the Rhine in Alsace (with surroundings, the wine route, Les Vosges castles, Riquewihr, Ribeauvillé, Colmar, etc.)
Paris was never really all that much a French city worth visiting. You will probably waste most of your holiday in the Paris Metro (subway). Best thing to do in Paris is likely sitting on the stairs on Montmartre during the sunset with your romantic partner and a bottle of cheap wine. Doesn´t really make it all that special, however.
Louvre? Versailles? Jim Morrisons grave? Forget it.
I really loved Montmartre and a lot of the architecture in Paris, but generally I agree that Nice is nicer (no pun intended). Never been to Strasbourg, though. I hear it's one of the best places in Europe for Christmas markets!
Surprisedly the Paris France that the Japanese and other Asian countries fantasize so much fits more the description of Monaco 🇲🇨
It matches all the luxurious high expectations that they assume with Paris France. 🤔
Imagine if the Japanese man that began the whole Paris syndrome decided to save up all his life savings and took a trip to Monaco 🇲🇨
to wash down the disappointment of Paris France, only to realize “Oh my freaking gosh!? It was France’s neighbor all along!” 🤯😵😭
Sometimes the country of your traveling dreams is where you least expect.
That's a really interesting observation! I've actually never been to Monaco - maybe I should check it out, if it's that nice :D
The fact is that people of all kinds are so mediocre looking when they travel and the people who live in any place have been programmed by fashion and modern trends to dress in such casual cheap fashion that the entire world looks identical now. So wherever we travel we find that the people who live there look the same as where we have departed from. Once the French had a special style , and the Germans possibly also, and the Swiss , and the Asian peoples and the African peoples and the peoples of the United States had their own fashions . But every body wears cheap sweat shirts and running shoes and the sort of sports clothes and basball caps .Also they listen to the same sort of American kind of Rock Music in one kind or another. There is no regional difference except maybe in the Islamic nations or some Indian nations . The Latin nations have some variations with salsa but it is still equally Westernised as I describe. My visits to Madrid and other Spanish cities found their central shopping districts all modernised and boring recently wheras they were so charming and with local character 30-40 years ago. And the only thing to get any stimulus from is therefore the language being spoken , and the buildings , and the art in the museums. ( I live in Britain and for a long time now our towns and cities which once had unique and different characters have been ruined by mass produced shopping mall and giant supermarket culture development.)This is the result! People go expecting an experience of a lifetime but they are part of these armies of samelike tourists who follow the same routes doing the same things and then wonder why they feel unfulfilled!
I think you're on to something... Just to expand on that, I traveled to the US recently and did both "usual" touristy things and more unexpected things. The big and famous attractions were all good, but nothing special - but the small unexpected ones were probably the highlight. It might not be like that for everyone, but for me at least there really needs to be a bit of exploration involved to enjoy a place fully.
@@ThreeStarVagabond Precisely! If the "herd" will not separate itself from each other , they are doomed to experience the sameness of each other perpetually and it rubs off upon the environments they go to ,sadly. Even there are those climbing high mountains in the Alps who leave their trash behind them,as if it is nothing to do with them the moment they finish the consuming of it!
I travelled to Paris with an open mind. But I found it incredibly drab.
I liked it actually! Nice things to see, the river was nice to walk along etc. But maybe not the mostly special city
That charming France...😢🤔
My whole south west of america made me have the paris syndrome... Dizzy and tired
Oh that's too bad! I had a lot of mixed experiences in the US west coast - some really good, some disappointments. But no Paris Syndrome really for me
I don’t understand the stampede over the Mona Lisa. Doesn’t seem worthwhile… 😅
Agreed! I found it more interesting to film the crowds rather than trying to get in line :D
Everyone goes there because everyone goes there. It's a reverse Yogi Berra thing.
People exaggerate about cities like Paris and New York. At the end of the day, they're just cities. In many cases you paid thousands to visit a city.
Agreed. And it's still a great experience - if you don't have too high expectations.
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Tourist need to visit deauville, dinan, Lille, Lyon, Annecy, biarritz, and other cleaner albeit smaller French places….paris is wayyyyyy overcrowded plus add millions of tourists visiting the same places over and over on top of that.
Lots of places there that I need to visit! I really have seen much too little of France overall
Baguettes *and* berets? You must have read too much Tin Tin or something. 😃
I'd personally expect them all to be sitting around having coffee and éclairs.
7:13 - That's a fancy, easy-to-carry camera you've got there. What's the model?
Haha what, isn't France just like in Tin Tin and Spirou and Gaston?! I'm shocked!
It's a DJI Pocket 2, and I absolutely love it - nice portable 4k camera, and I have a wireless mic for it. But I just ordered myself a Pocket 3 that was released this month...
@@ThreeStarVagabond Thanks!! Might very well get myself one of those, as my camera is way too bulky, and using a phone just doesn't work for me.
@@tumarfa It's so much more convenient to have a separate camera instead of using the phone. Especially if I want to look something up at the same time. This is really my best camera ever ^_^
That isekai kind of exists already. A guy meets with the godess who changes her mind and curses him to not understand or comunicate with humans because she finds him ugly.
Tsukimichi: moonlight fantasy.
And there are isekais where magic isint all powerful it has many uses but also many things magic cant fix.
Haha dammit! And Tsukimichi has been a manga since 2015, so I'm really late on that idea then. Oh well, thanks for the tips either way! It's difficult to have an original idea....
@@ThreeStarVagabond I agree with you, great minds think alike
and I also think "Kamikatsu" or "working for god in a world without gods" also is similar to that. It kind of makes fun of other isekais, guy dies and is reborn waking up by a girl litterally rubbing his "stick" and there is no guild in the first village he gets a dagger and thinks they wants for him to slay some goblins but they just want help harvesting grapes he end up harvesting too much and they wonder how some of it will get spoiled so our guy makes wine and so on.
@@jayamilapersson4030 Haha, sounds like a good one to check out! But right now I'm hooked on non-isekai stuff... Frieren, Apothecary, Eighty Six, etc - too many good new series!
@@ThreeStarVagabond I agree have wathed a few of frierien but I usually try to wait until the season is finished so I can binge it. But I plan to watch the ones you mentioned.
@@jayamilapersson4030 Frieren is my choice for top anime of 2023...unless it turns really bad towards the end. Let's hope not! But yeah the others are excellent too ^_^
Qatar world cup is way way way better than Paris Olympic
Well, except for the whole being in Qatar thing. Complete disgrace that they get to host it, being such a discriminatory country
I think paris symdrome hit larger population...
I thought so too before reading up on it all!
I had the same tho g happen to me in Napoli
I can imagine! A lot of Italy is so lovely, and then you get to Napoli and reality hits like a brick wall
@@ThreeStarVagabond On the other hand, Naples lies only 65 km = 40 miles away from the stupendous Amalfi Coast....
@@kliberalsing ...And from Capri. Damn, that was one beautiful little island!
When I visit to Paris I expect an european city, not an african warzone.
Also, I honestly don't understand where all these unrealistic expectations, both good and bad, come from. I mean I do understand where they come from, movies, TV shows, books, travelogues, posters, etc. I just don't get how people are foolish and naive enough to literally believe them, especially given all the far more realistic counternarratives that are present everywhere and hard to avoid.
Do people choose to be naive in the hope that their idealized version of the places they visit will turn out to be true even though deep down they realize that it's unlikely, because vacations are supposed to be ideal and they don't want to spoil that ideal, or are they actually naive and if so what explains that? I guess that it's sort of like politics, in which people choose to believe what they prefer to believe, whether it's based on known facts or obvious lies.
People create their own realities that have as much or as little to do with actual reality as pleases them, and when the two realities collide, the reaction tends to depend on how close the two are. As a traveler I've learned to dial down my expectations and enjoy some of the little things about new places, like markets, parks, quiet side streets and brief but pleasant encounters with regular people, and not just make it about the obvious tourist guidebook highlights.
Paris is just a dirty version of Budapest.
Haha! If I were sarcastic I'd say that that's mean to Budapest. Just kidding! 😊
So that Paris only exists in the hearts of the Japanese.🤔
I like to phrase it that way at least :)
@@ThreeStarVagabond Try to know about the French culture. Try to re-establish it. 🤔 Atleast a bit for now. Try to know about Paris which exists in hearts of the Japanese. Paris can use japanese technolgies. This is why japanese are not allowing migrants. 🤔
Great Video, I think the problem is people fantasizes about Paris and get a image of it, then when they get there reality sets in. The Japanese syndrome is caused by there politeness and not speaking badly, so the when they see it there brains go into overload with bad thoughts witch goes against their culture and that = The Paris Syndrome 😂 .
Haha you summed up what I was trying to convey in a couple of sentences! But I wanted to show off Paris a bit as well so I had to elaborate :D
Screw going to Paris just go to Hanoi. It’s Paris with warmer weather and somehow FEWER rats??
Haha! Why not any city in SEA in that case? "Screw Stockholm, go to Hue instead." "No need for London when you have Singapore." :D
I prefer the english....our closest cousins..🇩🇪🇬🇧
My goodness there's lots of blacks in France
Haha yes indeed. It's quite a multi-cultural country in general.
Because of Colonization. Remember Guadaloupe, West Africa, Algeria? Blacks living in France didn't happened in a vacuum but due to History......
Paris is not disney land dude, there are people living here 😁
Among the 35 million international tourists in Paris, 90% are delighted with their experience, 80% are in fact repeat visitors and about the same amount wants to go to Paris again. That's how you become the most visited city in the world for decades despite the urban legends.
If you fall into a depression while travelling as a result of a culture shock, you very like had symptoms of it already being at home. Holidays are just holidays. It would be giving far too much importance to it.
It was beautiful before diversity
The most depressing thing about Paris is all the Africans.
Paris won't become that way if France didn't colonize West Africa and Sub-Saharan areas and just stopped at Algeria, duh. You reap what you sow.
@@thomasgreene8054 Wrong. Paris wouldn't have ended up like that if they had closed the borders.
”Evolved” into the usual shit of today
lmao Paris isekai 😂
i was hit by a truck and reincarnated as japanese tourist in paris
@@jamesmiller2521 I would definitely watch that :D
Paris is no longer a european city,
that might be part of the problem.
The Paris Syndrome happens everywhere including in Japan, happened to all the nationalities including the French and concerns about nobody every year. Maybe 20 Japanese tourists in Paris per year over millions of Japanese tourists. That's a psychiatric condition and the problem isn't really the place but people not fit to travel.
Yep I pretty much agree with that. A pity for the ones it happens to, but that's not a huge number.
Skill issues.
Bad video
Nah, it's pretty good. You're a bad viewer
brilliant video, love it
Thank you so much :D