Re: Paris riots spread, shaking French government
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France is trying to build a multicultural society. Multiculturalism is the only way for the future. Leading a country in that direction requires courage, and the French leaders possess that courage. However, Paris is a big city with big differences between rich and poor and severe social problems, and much of the immigrants end up in these sort of ghettos. The French government seems overstretched when facing these problems.
But, they have succeded in turning France in a multicultural direction. The common American prejudices (in common I don't mean everybody) towards many other cultures are not very present in France. More France-like countries and less conservative religious countries like US; and this world would be better.
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I think an argument could be made that France is a much more monocultural society than the US. Multi-ethnic, multireligious, but monocultural. Think of the French Academy screening new words for unwanted influences or the repressive anti-religious legislation in the schools. Anyways, check my next post for a smarter guy's take...
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