From Paris to The Netherlands

It's a tough article to be written , it sucks ... I've no idea how to tell him the only thing occured to my mind when I read this title is ' Do you think I'm a typical Chinese ??? '

When Chinese are stuggling for yearly GDP growth at a consistant 9% , French are ruining their minds to keep their unemployment under 10% ; When Chinese are working 12 hours per day to prove what real life is , French are striking for 35 working hours per week ; When Chinese are trying hard to master this great foreign language , French are falling alseep in front of BBC english channel ...

I'm not against french , if you do understand what I'm talking about here , I actually love this country , love Paris , love French , I meant, the language :) Being a Chinese , living in France , I don't get it : Why french government should sacrify the middle-class's fortune to 'support' lower-working class , be precise , 80% of them are just lazy ; Why millions of non-skilled work force could still have jobs and stinked to the job 'forever ' ; Why you get a large portion of young population could live 24/24H in front of TV football , then you get everyday people in subway asking for easy money; Why there's people who seem having 48hours per day , then they could just spend 2 enjoyable hours for a cup of cafe au lait ...

I don't like French , here I mean a portion of the culture ...I've tried hard to understand french ' relax , we get one life only , who knows tomorrow ... ' way of life , also tried hard to figure out this country which created an architecture legend just having 'hunderds of years' for their CDG airport construction whose terminal 2 just went collapse the year after its foundation ceremony ; don't understand why this country could relate everything and that is really EVERYTHING to sex , that seems to me that that's the only thing they could sell , and believe me , usually at a cheap price ; don't understand how the education system could 'donate ' master degree to someone who even don't know how to use Microsoft excel or let's be nice , powerpoint ; don't understand how come 44/84 college students just go for a strike against new CPE contract , to me , that's actually a great move for french to create new jobs and competition ; don't understand with 3% inflation rate and 2% raise in national salary , did people notice they might need to work harder not playing harder for the time being ...

I love french , here , I mean people . I love french not as cold as german , not as loud as amercian , not as over romantic as latino, not as serious as asian ... I love french who exactly know when to give flowers and where we should take dinner together , I love french sending u home asking for coffee ' chez toi ' but never just come for a cappucino , I love french who get loads of nicknames for their partners which just surprised me that how much they love pets :) I love french who's sensitive for whatever their partners' saying , then been freaked out for nothing , I love french who always take me to Monmartre church pointing out where my apt is ... I do love here , I do love this country where I've learnt life is something you've to deal with by yourself , where I started my second page of life , be an adult ...