• France given a bad name after "xenophobic" attack on Chinese students.
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[QUOTE=elfbarf;41060370]My Spanish teacher last semester grew up in France (born in Côte d 'Ivoire) but moved to the US because of issues with discrimination in France (he's black). He told us that on his first day of teaching, most of the class walked out immediately after he came in. I can't speak for the rest of France, but I doubt all of the bigotry was restricted to where he lived.[/QUOTE] france is most definitely a terrible place. in fact, in my whole life i've never seen such a thing as a non-white teacher. i believe france is one of the most backwards modern world countries, to be very fair. last year i couldn't go a day without my mates making actual racist remarks.
[QUOTE=Moupi;41061286]france is most definitely a terrible place. in fact, in my whole life i've never seen such a thing as a non-white teacher. i believe france is one of the most backwards modern world countries, to be very fair. last year i couldn't go a day without my mates making actual racist remarks.[/QUOTE] It's true that we like to make racist jokes all lot, I mean amongst my friends. You don't want to be near us if you are chinese/jew/black/arab/belgium/italian/portuguese :D Tho the fact that there is no black teacher doesn't mean that society is racist, this could be caused by other factors.
You know cracking jokes at each others and actually being racist is a whole lot different thing right. Besides my French teacher in 1ère (don't know to which english grade that equals) was a black handicapped man from Congo-Brazzaville. The reason people are being racist in France is more because of immigration that went out of control and some suburbs becoming bloody warzones. There are places around Paris where cops don't even want to go unless there's something serious going on. I don't believe in this whole "French people are xenophobics because they always were", there's a reason for everything. [editline]17th June 2013[/editline] I don't think I know of many other European countries that allow a man or a woman immigrant to bring him all of his family regardless of where they were born and what their skills / background are. Immigration is good, when controlled.
[QUOTE=bubbagamer;41063359]You know cracking jokes at each others and actually being racist is a whole lot different thing right. Besides my French teacher in 1ère (don't know to which english grade that equals) was a black handicapped man from Congo-Brazzaville. The reason people are being racist in France is more because of immigration that went out of control and some suburbs becoming bloody warzones. There are places around Paris where cops don't even want to go unless there's something serious going on. I don't believe in this whole "French people are xenophobics because they always were", there's a reason for everything. [editline]17th June 2013[/editline] I don't think I know of many other European countries that allow a man or a woman immigrant to bring him all of his family regardless of where they were born and what their skills / background are. Immigration is good, when controlled.[/QUOTE] This is severe denialism.
[QUOTE=pedrus24;41061565]It's true that we like to make racist jokes all lot, I mean amongst my friends. You don't want to be near us if you are chinese/jew/black/arab/belgium/italian/portuguese :D Tho the fact that there is no black teacher doesn't mean that society is racist, this could be caused by other factors.[/QUOTE] i don't mean jokes. the people i used to hang out with actually made racist remarks towards blacks and arabs any time they saw one. it was really rude. i'm not even one, but it certainly wasn't them joking around
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