[irishpolyglot]

Another post that you may find more relevant to Paris is my experience in finally learning how to get along with Parisians: http://www.fluentin3months.com/closed-minded/ This is important to keep in mind as it's the only place in the world that my speak-the-language-from-day-one approach needed some tweaking ;) Enjoy the city - my favourite activity there is to stand over the bridge to the Cité and wave at a boat passing underneath and have 200 Japanese tourists wave back. Fun times!

[glimcat]

The concept of closed-mindedness is also heavily cultural; it doesn't always translate or map to local values.

[irishpolyglot]

As I said in the post, closed-mindedness is something that people have to realise lies within themselves. This post wasn't calling Parisians closed minded.

[glimcat]

I assumed you were calling yourself closed-minded.

But my point was that the whole open-minded versus closed-minded conversation hinges upon cultural values which are by no means universal. There are many cases where the reverse is seen as important (e.g. resisting outside influences) or where the entire topic is not seen as meaningful or important.

[irishpolyglot]

Thanks for explaining!