French Riot in Train Station

Count Zero · Post by **Count Zero** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 7:55 am

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europ ... index.html

This and the 2005 riots seem to stem from discrimination in France, which from what I understand is very common. It is perfectly legal there to refuse to hire someone because they aren't French born. It sort of reminds me of the Watts Riots in 1965 on a basic level.

smartmonkey · Post by **smartmonkey** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 11:55 am

The French right-wing has always had a thing about "french culture" - hell, these were the people that came up the the Academy - the guys that watched every new play and read every new novel before it could be released in france, then censored anything that wasn't French enough.

Fucking weird.

Shin Kenshiro · Post by **Shin Kenshiro** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 5:31 pm

So what exactly is the problem here?

Guy starts a fight because he doesn't want to show a ticket, police come by, people yell at the police for doing their jobs.

Dragonkin · Post by **Dragonkin** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 5:32 pm

~~[quote="Shin Kenshiro"]~~So what exactly is the problem here?

Guy starts a fight because he doesn't want to show a ticket, police come by, people yell at the police for doing their jobs.[/quote]

Sounds like New York or LA to me.

Count Zero · Post by **Count Zero** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 7:07 am

~~[quote="Shin Kenshiro"]~~So what exactly is the problem here?

Guy starts a fight because he doesn't want to show a ticket, police come by, people yell at the police for doing their jobs.[/quote]

The ticket guy isn't the real issue. Who knows why they guy freaked out, might have to do with people tending to harasss minorities if he was one.

It is the riot that broke out afterwards. It is related to the riots of 2005. There are some really odd cultural things going on in France. Think the U.S. in the 60's

Shin Kenshiro · Post by **Shin Kenshiro** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 8:32 am

I caught what you meant by that, except that France is incredibly different culturally than the US is. The 2005 riots were also fueled by Muslims who felt they were being discriminated against but were also 3rd generation immigrants who had refused to learn French and were living in France expecting that France should accomodate them and thinking France was going to be as flexible as the US is.

It's an entirely different country with a far far older culture with equally long traditions. It'd be more like the Watts riot if the blacks rioting in Watts spoke only Swahili and were demanding they should still be given equal opportunities for jobs while not being required to learn English for said jobs.

There was more to it, yes, but the majority of what went down in Paris during those riots was because of the Muslim situation.

Count Zero · Post by **Count Zero** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 9:00 am

~~[quote="Shin Kenshiro"]~~There was more to it, yes, but the majority of what went down in Paris during those riots was because of the Muslim situation.[/quote]

Add to the fact that most of the right wing in the France is pretty bigoted. I had this French neighbor that hated anyone of Arab descent.