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Posted by Luigi Donatello Asero on 11/19/07 11:34
"Toby Inkster" <usenet200512@tobyinkster.co.uk> skrev i meddelandet
news:auf173-ors.ln1@ophelia.g5n.co.uk...
> Luigi Donatello Asero wrote:
>
> > Could you compare somehow the riots in Sydney with the ones in France in
> > Paris or do you think that they have completely different reasons?
>
> I don't think the two are unrelated -- the Paris riots may well have
> planted the seeds of an idea in the minds of some of the rioters in
Sydney.
>
> But they're certainly for different reasons. In French society, anyone who
> doesn't fit the French cultural norm is viewed as an outsider and shunned.
> (It is for this reason that minority languages like Occitan, Breton and
> Frankish are all but extinct in France; whereas Spanish minority languages
> like Basque and Catalan are still healthy.) The French model of
> multiculturalism assimilates everyone -- there is less an attitude of
> "everyone is equal" and more of an attitude of "everyone is identical".
>
> That said, there is a lot of racism in France. People from ethnic
> minorities are routinely discriminated against. On one hand they're being
> expected to be the perfect French citizens, yet their fellow countrymen
> are treating them as outsiders.
>
> On top of that, there is no approved outlet for any tensions -- the
> government more or less ignores race relations issues. In their view,
> everyone in France is French, so how can there be any racial
> discrimination?
>
> Discrimination leading to high unemployment, poverty, ghettoisation and
> resentment: there's no surprise that riots broke out in Paris; the only
> surprise is that it didn't happen sooner.
>
> The Paris riots have given fuel to agents provocateur worldwide, and I
> expect to see a few more riots in other cities before things settle down
> again.
>
> Cronulla, where a lot of the trouble in Sydney has been going on, is a
> poor area, which is very ethnically mixed. Throw in a few trouble-makers
> and some intense heat (it's the height of summer) and tension is bound to
> be high.
>
> I *am* surprised that it trickled up to Maroubra though: it's a fairly
> affluent area.
>
> --
> Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS
> Contact Me ~ http://tobyinkster.co.uk/contact
As we had previously discussed in europa.union about the riots in France I
post your answer to that NG as well.
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Luigi Donatello Asero
https://www.scaiecat-spa-gigi.com/sv/italien-valle-daosta/boende-i-italien-i-valle-daosta.php
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