MASSIVE DISCLAIMERS!!! ----> I am not racist, I have friends of many different races, but this is just something that happened to me. I am deeply sorry if you are even slightly offended by anything you read hereafter. This may happen. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
So, at the start of June, I went on a school trip to Paris, the supposedly most romantic city in the world, but really, we just saw a lot of goddamn pharmacies. It was very interesting, even through the windows of a coach. Really, if you get the chance to go, go. Just go. Just pack a large lunch and a lot of music. However, there were some rather internally embarrassing moments for me.
When we went to the Eiffel, ou Le Tour D'Eiffel pour tu francais (je suis desole pour mon francais malard), we were warned about what the PGL people called 'lookee lookee men'. Basically, (basically no auto-capitalisation sucks) they would come up to tourists with mini Eiffel towers and trinkets and attempt to sell them. Of course, the whole thing is illegal, as is buying them. But all of them were young black men. I'm not exaggerating. There was not a single female or even white or Asian (or any other race) person doing the same thing. The thing is, we'd also been warned of pickpockets.
And for the rest of that day, I looked around for young black men near me, and checked for my wallet. Now I know that it was stupid, but I did. Needless to say, nothing happened, I returned to England with a lighter wallet - but only because I bought some Nightmare Before Christmas shoes. They're cool.
Now, I need to rant, otherwise my second proper post doesn't work. One of the only issues with the trip was the PGL guy that was looking after us at Chateau du Grand Romain, since he was a patronising asshole.
If there's something that I hate about people more that them being hypocritical and stupid, because I am guilty of both of them on purpose sometimes, it's when people are patronising. People treating others like they're stupid when they know that they're not or before they know them properly makes me really annoyed, because academically, I am/can be quite intelligent. I have been on the receiving end of this before, and although when it's forced, it's funny as all hell, when it's how you are as a person, I want you to crawl into an open grave and die. (No, please don't I was joking. But if you are like that and we meet, prepare for me to be pissed off.) If you don't know the person, treat them like an equal until you actually know what they are like. If they are stupid, feel free to treat them as matches their level of intelligence as long as it doesn't get offensive. If it does, don't let it. Just don't. People who get patronising towards a person before they properly know them are narrow-minded assholes. If you would get off your f***ing high-horse for two seconds and goddamn talk to people normally, you would realise how normal people are not stupid, and it is in fact, you who has been stupid by patronising people. (I would just like to point out that by saying 'you', I am not referring to YOU, the reader, I am using it to explain a thought.)
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