The problem is that we're talking about quite a few different things. Here's a list of them:
- the politeness of Parisian waiters.
- the perceived equality between individuals of different social classes, by nationality.
- the accuracy of a particular sociologist explaining the aforementioned perception.
- the real equality between different social classes, by nationality.
- the role and and status of waiters.
- the percentage of allegory which is silicone.
- the frequency of generalisations per post when discussing the personality traits of large groups of relatively disparate individuals.
I think Parisians are quite rude in general. More so than Londoners. But not more so that New-Yorkers or Bostonians. I think Parisian waiters are pretty cool nowadays. I think France is a more equalitarian society than both the UK and the US. But I do think class plays a much bigger role in the UK and France than it does in the US.
Allegory wrote:
In France people may be overall closer in income, but they act like bigger douches about what little they have over their fellows than people in the U.S.
That's not accurate. French snobbism is not about material possessions or wealth. In fact, the biggest self-righteous French douches often feel snobbish about people who think material wealth is meaningful. The rasons for French douchiness/snobbishness are mostly to do with education, culture, social life, last name, language, etc...
Not that you would understand any of these insights, bien sur.
