Japanese in Paris (a czy z nami nie jest tak samo?)

This is not surprising, as the Japanese (as a whole) have always romanticized the West, but it is telling.
More than a 100 [Japanese] expatriates a year are sinking into a state called „the Paris syndrome” which is characterised by feelings of persecution or suicidal tendencies, according to the mental health facilities of city hospitals, according to a study in the Liberation newspaper said.
Part of their clinical depression stems from having to reconcile their romanticism about Paris with reality, psychiatrists said.
„Magazines are fuelling fantasies with the Japanese, who think there are models everywhere and the women dress entirely in (Louis) Vuitton,” Mario Renoux, the head of a French Japanese Society for Medecine was quoted as saying. After a relatively short period of only three months or so, Japanese immigrants expecting to find a haven of civilisation and elegance instead discover a tougher existence with many problems dealing with the French.