''..Well, have you heard of Paris Syndrome?
It’s a surreal phenomenon whereby Japanese tourists in particular
arrive in Paris and seem to undergo some sort of mental collapse,
experiencing raised anxiety, delusions, irrational feelings of
persecution and hostility, even hallucinations, or vomiting. The main
theories as to what’s happening here is that Japanese tourists have an
incredibly romanticised belief in what Paris is like thanks to countless
media and film portrayals. The reality of it being, you know, mostly a
normal city, coupled with the tangible differences in behaviour and
manners between Japanese and Parisian culture, induces an intense and
debilitating form of culture shock..''
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