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Julie Chamand

"I'm a French student from Paris who went to Australia on exchange with Melbourne Uni. I wanted to broaden my horizons and find out about another culture, and well, bingo! I learnt about a dozen of them! While multiculturalism is the best, I must say I still missed foie gras."

Arts + Culture |

60 movies the French share as culture

A common cultural knowledge is acquired when you grow up or live in France for a very long time. And it is this cultural knowledge that, I think, shapes the French character and makes you thereby French.

Vie Française |

Ça lé gaillard oté* !

Originaire de la Réunion, j’ai entendu plus d’une fois la question : « Mais pourquoi t’es pas noire ? ». Sans être atteinte d’albinisme, c’est vrai que je n’ai pas le profil exotique que la plupart des gens s’imaginent en pensant aux départements d’outre-mer.