I think it may be that the folks who sit in cafes leisurely sipping latte from porcelain cups are perceived as arrogant snobs who think they're better than ordinary people
If the author of that lines had ever laid eyes on one of the said Parisian cafes and any of its clients, from 13-year old girls to 80-year old women, he would perhaps realize that those ARE ordinary people. That it does NOT get any more "ordinary" than that. That cafes in France are the common denominator of all people, from all walks of life, and that regardless of education, social status, wealth, fame etc, everyone with a couple of Euros in his pocket can sit down for an hour (nobody kicks you out after you finish your coffee) and watch the city go by...
Now where would that perception come from?
Ignorance. Pure and simple.
Anyone who associates snobbery with cafes in Paris does not have a clue about what a cafe is in Paris, how little a coffee costs there, and what a large percentage of the population (anyone who can walk well enough to leave their home, basically) enjoys them.
It is like saying clients of McDonalds are snobbish. |
