Paris domineering role over France

To many folks France is Paris more than anything else, because of the domineering role its capital, Paris has upon the entire country. 

Unlike Germany influenced by its main cities like Berlin, Frankfurt and Munich, the United States’ Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco, or Italy’s Milan and Rome, France is under the ironclad control of its Paris capital, which means that all other regions and cities can only feel like second-class citizens because all happen first in Paris and Paris always control everything from careers, to business or culture. 

This is not a popular subject and it’s in fact never discussed as it should in France. Most of its citizens accept the situation as an immovable fact of life and live with its constraint the very best they can. 

Yet, I believe that France would be a more successful and affluent country if had let other cities and population centers develop to their own greatness by reducing the blinding power of its capital city. 

At the same time, Parisians believe and are convinced of their superiority in all respects and over all sectors of the nation’s activity and tend to look at the rest of their non-Parisian peers as inferior or underdeveloped. This, at least, is my impression. What is yours?