Paradoxes

My Dad emailed last week and suggested writing about some paradoxes that exists in France.

Here are a few off-hand:

• If you see someone driving a snazzy automobile, they are probably homeless and living in a squatter RV parking lot village.
• Food here--very fat. People here--quite shrimpy.
• Strict ideas about privacy. No concept of personal space.
• All English-language movies and tv shows get dubbed over. This doesn't exactly coincide with encouraging their citizens to learn English.
• They are imagined to be fashion-forward. Actually they are caught in a time warp morphing 1960 and 1990. Possible explanation--the tv shows running now are mostly from those time periods. (Happy Days, The Nanny, The Fresh Prince of Bel Air)
• France is known for social help. Yet there's a surprising lack of signs in braille and tv doesn't have closed captioning for the hearing impaired. Also, no wheelchair ramps or bathrooms.