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Yes, it's true: Starbucks is coming to Paris
And here is the photographic proof:
http://www.mxsmanic.com/testimages/starbucks.jpg Note the Opéra Garnier in the distant background. The Starbucks is on the Avenue de l'Opéra, a bit closer to the Louvre than to the Opéra itself, though. It's right on the edge of the closest thing Paris has to a "little Tokyo"--an area with lots of Japanese restaurants and a few Japanese stores (including a Japanese supermarket right around the corner). -- Transpose hotmail and mxsmanic in my e-mail address to reach me directly. |
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Yes, it's true: Starbucks is coming to Paris
In Nice, I noticed that McDonald's served espresso, like every other cafe.
And people came to take out coffees to their work. So I guess it shows that if you adapt to local culture, even France will accept you. "Mxsmanic" wrote in message ... And here is the photographic proof: http://www.mxsmanic.com/testimages/starbucks.jpg Note the Opéra Garnier in the distant background. The Starbucks is on the Avenue de l'Opéra, a bit closer to the Louvre than to the Opéra itself, though. It's right on the edge of the closest thing Paris has to a "little Tokyo"--an area with lots of Japanese restaurants and a few Japanese stores (including a Japanese supermarket right around the corner). -- Transpose hotmail and mxsmanic in my e-mail address to reach me directly. |
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Yes, it's true: Starbucks is coming to Paris
Mark Fagan writes:
So I guess it shows that if you adapt to local culture, even France will accept you. Even if you don't adapt, France will accept you, as long as the culture you sell is Hollywood American. Chevignon was successful for a long time selling entirely made-up "American" clothing and other goods, even though it was a French company. It sold the wannabe illusion that appeals so much to the French. -- Transpose hotmail and mxsmanic in my e-mail address to reach me directly. |
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Yes, it's true: Starbucks is coming to Paris
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Yes, it's true: Starbucks is coming to Paris
On 26/12/03 6:45 pm, in article ,
"Hatunen" wrote: On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 09:54:57 +0100, Earl Evleth wrote: On 26/12/03 8:34, in article , "Mxsmanic" wrote: Mark Fagan writes: So I guess it shows that if you adapt to local culture, even France will accept you. Even if you don't adapt, France will accept you, as long as the culture you sell is Hollywood American. Chevignon was successful for a long time selling entirely made-up "American" clothing and other goods, even though it was a French company. It sold the wannabe illusion that appeals so much to the French. Gertrude Stein said "It was not what France gave you but what it did not take away from you .. " It still is a curious culture for Americans, they don`t understand the uproar over the scarves, for instance, which ultimately a mole hill dispute just as flag burning or homosexual marriages are in the US. For each his own. The realted problem in the USA not too long ago was whether Sikhs could wear their turban in various duties., and whether Sikh schoolboys can carry there religiously-required daggers to school. When I attended school in a large town in northern England there were a number of boys who wore turbans. I don't recall it ever being a problem, or even being remarked upon. But maybe the difference was that these boys were well integrated into the society, whereas the scarf-wearers of Paris are not. It seems to me that what is being attacked in France is a symptom, whereas what should be attacked is the malady of non-integration itself. J; |
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