Peut-etre un peu Sensitivity Training

Mais oui, the Europeans most admired by the liberal elites here, les Francais are, shall we say, a bit provincial. Reuters:

French tourists are the worst in the world, coming across as bad at foreign languages, tight-fisted and arrogant, according to a survey of 4,500 hotel owners across the world. [snip]

"It's mainly the fact that they speak little or no English when they're abroad, and they don't speak much of the local language," Expedia Marketing Director Timothee de Roux told radio station France Info.

"The French don't go abroad very much. We're lucky enough to have a country which is magnificent in terms of its landscape and culture," he said, adding that 90 per cent of French people did their traveling at home.

Of course it's the Brits reporting here, but somehow this is not a surprise. Perhaps they should strive to be a bit more multicultural in their outlook.