YOU SEE YOUR NEIGHBOURS! DO YOU REALLY KNOW THEM
Who are your neighbours? You see them, you greet them may be, you even smile with them, but do you know actually who they are? In France, greetings are personalised between people who really know each other, that is why some foreigners who visit France usually get angry at French people and find it difficult to understand the way of life here.It's sometimes ok in France not to greet people you don't know even if they are your closest neighbours, or not to respond to people you don't know.
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and most of all, about the one little children shud be afraid of
As for not greeting people you don t know, you call it okay, I call it rude. Whats the old saying, Too have good neighbors, you have to be a Good neighbor.
I had a Dutch girl friend, who never knew the system and she will always complain, that people here in France are not friendly.People do not respond when she greeted them, and no one will greet her.But when i come back from the job site, people around will always tell me that, her French was not good.