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This
hotel
makes
you
feel
you
are
located
in
the
heart
of
French
country
side,
with
its
employees
neither
well-educated
nor
sufficiently
civilised
to
deal
with
international
clienteles.
I
am
fluent
both
in
English
and
French,
with
Asian
origin
(Japanese),
a
solo
traveler
having
stayed
in
this
hotel.
The
sub-conscious
bias
of
the
staff
working
in
the
restaurant
made
them
not
offering
menu
to
me
among
a
dozen
of
customers
dining
at
the
same
time,
which
obliged
me
to
walk
over
to
the
cashier
to
request
for
a
menu.
Young,
poorly-educated,
and
talking-confident
and
loud
staff
members
reluctantly
opened
the
menu
and
awkwardly
received
my
order
of
a
glass
wine.
After
all,
I
conversed
with
a
couple
of
staff
there
with
all
my
conversation
held
in
French.
I
kindly
requested
them
to
treat
customers
equally
despite
their
subconscious
bias
(and
level
of
education)
and
the
answer
I
got
demonstrates
very
well
the
problem
itself
:
"We
are
sorry,
but
you
speak
'too
much
English',
and
that's
why
we
thought
we
cannot
communicate
with
you".
This
is
a
comedy
of
Francois
Ozon
that
I
will
cite
for
the
rest
of
my
life
in
my
anecdotes,
as
1)
I
did
not
talk
much
with
any
of
them
in
any
language,
before
coming
to
the
cashier,
so
I
cannot
talk
with
them
'too
much
English',
2)
all
the
conversation
I
had
with
this
female
staff
addressing
on
'Too
much
English'
was
held
in
French.
I
had
to
ask
her
twice
'in
which
language
am
I
talking
now?'
for
her
to
acknowledge
it
was
in
French,
without
a
word
in
English,
3)
Novotel
is
an
American
franchised
hotel
and
it
is
quite
shocking
the
employees
in
the
restaurant
refuse
to
talk
to
the
customers
for
the
reason
of
'Too
much
English'.
As
result,
although
I
adored
their
wine,
old
town
and
history,
Avignon
is
one
of
the
least
sophisticated
parts
of
France
where
you
see
quite
savagely
expressed
'indigenous'
and
'traditional'
almost
'tribal'
culture
of
this
region,
a
touch
of
European
dark
medieval
age,
where
local
people
were
busy
killing
witches.
The
wine
tastes
excellent
here,
but
international
conversation
in
NovotelAvignon
with
its
employees
will
go
quite
shockingly
basic
and
pre-modern,
for
any
non-Caucasian
travelers
to
be
aware
and
prepared
for.
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