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To: tejek who wrote (266087)	12/27/2005 5:58:40 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578125

Re: But the young French Arabs and French Africans are different in many ways from the Armenians and Italians, or the Portuguese and Spanish who came to France in the past century, or the Poles and Romanians and other Eastern Europeans arriving now. Their religion — most are Muslim — sets them apart from earlier, Christian immigrants. Their very appearance is different. They are in France at a time of high unemployment and economic stagnation. All compounded by the fact that (North) Africa is just around the corner, across the Mediterranean pond, which somehow spoils the incentive for immigrants to integrate or, rather, to utterly forget their (North) African heritage. Indeed, although most immigrant youths were born and grew up in Europe, speak and write French/Dutch/German fluently (at least as fluently as their white working-class fellows), their parents' and grandparents' countries are only a one- or two-day car drive away. A big difference with immigrants in the US who are well aware that their native countries lie half a world away. That is, if we exclude Mexicans: Message 21795325