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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (266125)	12/27/2005 10:59:42 AM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1578238

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. How does this explain their high unemployment rate and the French refusal to rent apts. to them outside their barrios? If they were treated more like equals, they might be more willing to integrate and forget Algeria or Turkey. 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: If you eliminate the Mexicans and Central Americans, we have a small immigrant population that is not a problem for us. Illegal immigration coupled with the anger festering in our black ghettos is America's problem, many of whom are not integrated into the main society. And make note, the anger in the black ghetto is not due even in part by the fear that they will forget their African heritage. In other words, they riot for many of the same reasons as the Africans in Europe riot. ted