Review: Not so fast...
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 04 6, 2012
Granted this is a short story but it does not excuse the lack of proper research when writing about another culture, country and language. First of all, size 14 isn't morbidily obese to the point of not fitting into a car seat. Marylin Monroe was a 14. What type of cars do you think they drive in France, sardine cans? And there are plenty of Africans in France. French men are notoriously fond of black women and a large number of them are married to black women over there making beautiful mixed race babies from generation to generation so to say that they were not used to seeing a mixed race woman with size 14 is an insult to people intelligence. There are plenty of women of all size in France, not every one is size 0. And i couldn't even enjoy this story because the french used was so grostesquely incorrect it threw me off. It's like someone speaking broken English to you when trying to say for example: I'm not hungry but instead says, me no hungry. you have to conjugate the verbs in the correct tense and correct vocabulary. It wasn't a great read for and yes i'm part French and African, so you're talking about my culture. A piece of advice, Jacobs as a last name isn't French nor Italian. It should have been Jacob without the "s" because it is an anglo-saxon connotation and would mean that he had anglo-saxon background.