On the contrary, when an arab comes to France, and lives there, for some reason he has to speak perfect french or he will be despised.

Today i was at the bank in Paris  and a guy came to do some… bank stuff, and he had a big accent and not much vocabulary, and the employee at the bank was very… well. Just imagine a snob/mean face.

A month ago i was at the bank in Beirut to do some bank stuff and mentionned my level of arabic wasn’t good enough to have a serious-business discussion, so… well, the employee spoke to me in french.

In the same spirit :

An occidental person in an arabic country will not consider one second that wearing a short skirt might be offending to some pious local people.

BUT ! In France, a good bunch of people find veils on women’s hair offensive.

Sometimes i wonder who’s tryin to impose its truth on the other.

The occident has been showing off its self proclaimed moral superiority for centuries now, and they’re complaining that a group of fucked up minds blow themselves off in our capitals ? They should just try to see the world from a different perspective and see what they’ve done.

Our enemies are ourselves, and only ourselves.

So i spent a few hours on the balcony of my former neighbors who are still as generous as they were before… and walked around in a city where i feel i belong.

: )

Right now i’m in a starbucks (hoho) and i just saw a guy paying his expresso with a 100 dollar bill.

Ah, Lebanon.