Portfolio Element 2 Paris syndrome
“We are talking about a culture that, historically, had a completely different belief system and development trajectory from places in Europe,” Rodanthi Tzanelli, a professor of cultural sociology at the University of Leeds in the U.K., told Live Science. These cultural differences, as well as likely unmet romantic expectations, may explain why Japanese visitors are at an elevated risk for Paris syndrome.
Actually Paris syndrome is kind of ‘moaning for no reason’, a bit of like you are not depressed but you described yourself as “I am feeling depression”.
This is what I found from bbc news:
Many of the visitors come with a deeply romantic vision of Paris – the cobbled streets, as seen in the film Amelie, the beauty of French women or the high culture and art at the Louvre.
The reality can come as a shock.
An encounter with a rude taxi driver, or a Parisian waiter who shouts at customers who cannot speak fluent French, might be laughed off by those from other Western cultures.
But for the Japanese – used to a more polite and helpful society in which voices are rarely raised in anger – the experience of their dream city turning into a nightmare can simply be too much.
It could be described a little bit overdramatic, but as international students, we feel in the same way of living in london. It is a dream city that we want to stay, but it is so crucial… Everything is so crucial…
Inspired by a CSM student who is doing a performance art on the street, mainly selling his time as an artist, me and a couple friends were doing a performance art on “Drifting”… Having talked to homeless people and homeless artist (there was one in paddington), experienced the fact that LSE grandpa died of cold, I was curious about: Do we really show kindness to strangers?
The place itself–near the Liverpool street station is very crowded. I saw lot of people doing parade and questionnaires beforehand. So I don’t think it is a site-specific area for the homeless people.
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/r3hrdl4kd3t98leit5iza/231104_001.WAV?rlkey=rhxsv60i7tesldcv11lcrkkhh&dl=0 (Sound Archive) This was an hour of the sound archive, recording people coming and passed by, giving ideas on our ‘street performance’. I remembered there was an old man praising that the poem wrote by one of our team members were very romantic and appealing. There was also a rude, drunk man asking for cigarettes for so many times. (I can feel that if we don’t give him, he might kick us out).