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NorthernGent -> RE: Riots Point to Racially Divided France (12/1/2007 4:46:02 AM)
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ORIGINAL: slaveboyforyou
It's economic, not racial. Those immigrants are generally from countries that once were French colonies. They come there looking for a better life, and they find huge unemployment instead. All of this unemployment is rooted in France's 35 hour work week, lengthy vacation times, and huge welfare system. The native French just shove these people into public housing and pretend there isn't a problem. The leftists in that country have the nerve to call Sarkozy a fascist just because he wasnts to fix the mess that France is in.
There's some truth in there, but in other areas you're wide of the mark.
To illustrate the point, the French and British economies are of a similar standard (using GDP as a measure). France has issues with poverty, crime and race relations, but are you seriously considering that the United States doesn't have the same issues? Let's have a genuine, unbiased discussion, here, and not allow the propagandists to spew the same old bollocks that France is this, that and the other, and the United States could not possibly have the same issues.
In England, the best teachers teach in the best schools, thus perpetuating the cycle of unequal access to opportunity; in France, this is not the case, which is great, some of the best teachers teach in the most deprived areas. So, you have some of these Muslim lads and lasses coming out of school with a decent education; 'problem in France is that some employers see a Muslim name on a CV and it goes straight in the bin. These lads and lasses are politically aware, and not happy with their lot.
The leftists in that country have the nerve to call Sarkozy a fascist just because he wasnts to fix the mess that France
is in.
The problem the French have with Sarkozy is nothing to do with accusations of fascism; the issue is that he is attempting to change French culture in one big fell swoop. France is a nation which prides itself on national unity, they see Sarkozy as a threat to that by directing the climate towards the individuality of Anglo-Saxon societies.
As said, it is debatable whether or not France is in any more of a mess than England or the United States. What you're seeing is the deep rooted French desire for self-expression; in England, we rarely riot over political issues, we're a fairly sedate lot, I'll guess it's the same in the United States. The French are an altogether different fish: they'll get out on the streets and express themselves. These lads and lasses are behaving in a very French manner.
All of this unemployment is rooted in France's 35 hour work week, lengthy vacation times, and huge welfare system.
Considering today's global economy, you have a point, and they're fighting a losing battle in the face of the corporate machine, but take a moment to reflect on the fact that the French are resisting, while the English and Americans are falling into line like obedient lads and lasses.
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