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To: Bilow who wrote (175141)	11/17/2005 10:49:11 AM
From: neolib	Read Replies (1) of 281500

The way I understand it, France let a lot of those people into France because they fought on France's side during the Algerian conflict. And I think that trying to blend them into French culture is better done belatedly than not at all. I read an article recently which claimed many of these people were imported for labor starting in the 1960's. Labor the french didn't want to do. It was part of the grand rebuilding of France after WWII. Reminds me of the various economist that tout the importance of immigration for the USA. I doubt our problems will be as severe as France's because we are bigger, we're better at assimilating, and the numbers moving here are likely to be a lot smaller. I'm sure that France's problems are uniquely French, but I suggest that your own grandkids will have a 50-50 chance of speaking Spanish. Oddly enough, the reason they will is exactly the same as the French problem: a few generations of their elders desiring cheap labor for jobs they'ed rather not do, while ignoring biology. LOL!

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