Paris Syndrome

Last week, I was listen to the radio during ride the bus to attended the class and the DJ from radio station, MET 107 talking about Paris syndrome. I felt surprise to know, in this world there have this kind of illness. Paris Syndrome was found and diagnosed by Professor Hiroki Ota , a Japanese psychiatrist who work in France in 1986. This disease symptoms cause the carrier mostly they are Japanese tourist and it will make them feel dizzies, sweating, professionalization, derealization and anxiety. Paris,the dream city of all Japanese tourist, in each year there are about 1 million Japanese tourist will visit Paris and 20 % of them will impact with this disease. Because of the different culture that shock Japanese tourist such as the language barrier, the completely different from the idealistic Paris of Japanese for example Japanese think about Paris as the most romantic place with the beautiful scenery of Eiffel Tower and the significant of historical building. On the other hand, when they face with the terrible service that the wait staffs yell to the customer or the tense and attitude of French to Japanese visitor. That make a big confusion to them when everything does not like what they are expecting.

Sound strange isn't it. I hope Bangkok will not in the list of mislead town to tourist like Paris.