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Nobody forced the French to colonize a significant portion of the world, by the way.
by frostburg 7y ago
Nobody forced the French to colonize a significant portion of the world, by the way.
- GrayTextIsTruth 7y agoWhat about Berlin and Stockholm? It’s not unique to the colonizers.
- IfOnlyYouKnew 7y agoIn Berlin. A great city: fast, honest, poor & sexy. Stay away.
- douglasmurray12 7y agoBut what Paris has become is not somehow a direct consequence of colonialism. Those were two separate decisions, and should be criticized and judged separately.
- frostburg 7y agoAll those people of Algerian descent surely aren't there by chance.
- douglasmurray12 7y agoI could be wrong, but it is my understanding that it was a deliberate policy of the French government after WW2 to invite them in. It is also natural that French-speaking people of the world would prefer to migrate to France. But if French governments wanted to limit migration from Algeria or elsewhere, they could have done so. It was certainly not an inevitable consequence of colonialism.
- pnako 7y agoThey were brought in as guest workers. French governments tried to restrict or revert immigration a few times (in the seventies I think) but it did not work. And now, in Brest, deep down (or west) into Breton (Celt) territory, we have a radical Sunni mosque. And woke Americans lecturing me about it's supposedly a great thing.