Yes assimilation works if the groups are immigrating into the country, their number is rather limited and they are willing to assimilate. However If France som

Yes assimilation works if the groups are immigrating into the country, their number is rather limited and they are willing to assimilate. However If France somehow managed to hold onto to Algeria and (eventually) granted the Muslim majority full civil (which is not far fetched, as far as we can tell only a tiny fraction of Algerians actively supported supported FLN until both sides started engaging in extreme violence; of course by de Gaulle’s time it was far too late..) what would have happened? Would the vast majority of the Muslim Algerian population and their descendants embraced liberal secularism or would they have supported parties which represented their local interests? Why do you think that most of them would have suddenly turned into “French people” for no reason?