11-13-2015, 11:23 PM -
(11-13-2015, 10:50 PM)Makween Wrote: The context in France is totally different for a start: huge numbers of immigrants brought over from the colonied in the 1950s, initially housed in shantytowns before being moved into what quickly became ghettos. Â Decades of media stigmatisation becoming of 'un-French' immigrants becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy (which ties into the broader failure of French integrationism). Â The Algerian War of Independence and its aftermath. Â The Algerian Civil War and its aftermath. Â Britain's racial-religious tensions really pale into insignificance in comparison to France's.
The French example really puzzles me. Why? Because I think the British model - lots of different cultures, no central host culture - encourages division, resentment and all the rest of it, whereas the French model in theory should not. Yet as you say, it absolutely does.