@tomharkermusic: Living here has taught me that protests are part of French life. But that doesn’t mean everything is business as usual. There are real problems, and the situation is serious, BUT… I’m not gonna die you guys lol. Calm down. I’m just sharing my perspective as an American living here. Do you think the international media accurately portrays what’s happening in France and Saturday October 17th??? #france #americaninparis #studentprotest #protest #blocus

Jermy🇲🇽 in 🇫🇷 :

As Mexican and American, living in Arras, my mother keeps telling me to be careful and safe from this like mom! I would be more scared to be at a school in the States or to be in the streets of Mexico than what is happening here plus I’m not even near any big city or Paris dealing with this. Plus French ppl are allowed to protest ! 😭😂

copenhagendk0🇩🇰 :

As a European it is so strange to see americans in full blown panic, cancelling trips to France. Calm down - yes we have demonstrations here, yes it can get heatet, but no way near the horrible things that are happening in the US. AND - look into the dates, the demonstrations have dates, like the 17th was a date of demonstration. And most of them were peacefull.

Algin'sbigcheeks :

"France is on fire" pans to footage of a push bike on fire 😂

naybs13 :

Protest are our family reunion we are resolving family affairs . The sense of collective is ingrained in us . Liberté , Egalité, Fraternité are not vain words but principles we want to live by .

Siloon273 :

functioning like french way 🤣... c'est tellement vrai 🤣🤣🤣

pascalou.06 :

on a subreddit for travels some American was searching for heavy discounts I hotels for November/December and was surprised to only find the off season 20% discount. wdym I paris only 1 street in 1000 was affected, in 2 weeks the repairs are done, and yes France is not only paris.

My Vie en Rose 🌸 :

Aww I mean I get your point. I agree. But also why attack your friends for caring about you. I like receiving those messages 🥺 it's sweet

ElioAce :

Im french and my wife is American. She’s living here in Paris with me for 6 years now. She keeps saying she’s feeling way safer here than in the US. She was laughing at the texts we were having from the US abt the protests lol

Thomas Sallaberry :

Après je comprends que notre façon de protester puisse paraître extrême vue de l’étranger ! Et probablement qu’elle l’est un peu on va pas se mentir ! Mais c’est dans la culture française de protester et manifester parfois violemment pour se faire entendre 😅 Après t’façon en France je vais pas mentir on s’en br un peu de ce que pense les pays étrangers de nous on est trop autocentré, syndrome du personnage principal très assumé 😅

user348234925507 :

Merci 🙏

Lil'Goblins Taverne :

omg my mom keeps emailing me about this like it's so dangerous and bad. it makes me ill.... when the US is so scary.

bethechangeyouwanttosee1 :

I moved to France 4 yrs ago- but it's much safer here than the US.

JLM :

Exactly. Exactly.

la bouille :

En tant que française je vous dis merci ❤️

Geviron :

Kudos to you

Nananafrance5🇫🇷 :

AmericaninFrance :

💯 my family in SD did the same thing.

ana :

Merci 🙏

lottane :

I’m a foreigner living in Dijon working in Lyon. The only thing I’ve felt threatened by is the cops during the manifs, because they are unhinged and unpredictable. To tourists that don’t go to manifs that’s pretty avoidable.

marion may :

americans walking in the streets with guns but according to them france is more dangerous

Exelin Rosinante :

I think the least safe city in France remains safer than the safest city in the United States.

user1455678967 :

I’ve seen some American tourist during our protest , they look like they were running from the devil ( well it was actually an equivalent, brav m ) but I think that for those who are not currently in France , it’s mainly because from outside if you only see 2-3 videos you’ll assume that the country is being destroyed

sandy :

quand on voit ça, c est trop marrant quand meme

lillyloic :

ils font comme en France, ils montrent que les casseurs...

Fiches-droit.com :

Bro I’m french, I also thought that those attacks were happening only to others. Until the moment when it happened to me, when two guys put a knife on my neck in Grenoble in 2009. I left France in 2018, I now live in Estonia and I spend the winters in Asia (Thailand or Bali) and I can guarantee you that those countries are much safer than France.