National Identity : Who is really French ?

What does it mean to be French? For the past few months, France has been asking itself that very question. But the debate over national identity launched by President Sarkozy now appears to be deepening racial tensions present for years. To get to the heart of the matter, our reporter James André went to Marseille, the most ethnically diverse city in France.

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• national
• identity
• Sarkozy
• racial
• tensions

[claatu]

North europeans like that in the end. Elderlies get their price cheap at the market, until the people will also claim their rights and learn how to raise prices once they will corporate, the french woman will get her black bamboo, while the man will have his cocaine dose for cheap and the parties will have his majority votes using cheap labours. It's easier that Elvis live than naive north europeans understanding how they got fooled by the zionist system. -_- Keep eating feet smelly cheese.

[claatu]

What does it mean to be french: it means to be controlled by zionists since french revolution, how was that? Liberté, legalité, fraternité? do me a favour. Enjoy North Marrakech. When all the cultures will be mixed, the only reference you will consider for your own interest it will not be some politician born in that city, it will be a politician with money (bank funded), since all the cities will look like us ones, mcdonalds, alal khebab, and stinky markets.

[melmar701]

Let's not just get confuse about "nationality" and "racial origin" and all other issues concerning being french and who are not french will be solved once and for all. C'os for *God's sake, look! the question was so simple that even a grade shooler could easily understand the difference! WTH!

[xenomorphelv426]

Being French is more than a national identity card. it's a state of mind.

[melmar701]

@BojaxsThe problem about being "French" vis a vis the issue of national identity is that the question itself is illogic and contradictory on its sense.Being "French" is already a COMPLETE national identity irregardless of the person's racial origin. While the question of "who is really French" contradicts the principle of nationality because obviously everyone can be a French citizen even if he is an Algerian, Asian, or black African.So,the two issues are void, illogic and out of tangent!!

[Bojaxs]

Immigrants don't get it. They can always take comfort in knowing their own home countries are full of their own kind, and culture and society.

White, Europeans see themselves becoming increasingly marginalized within their own countries by large amounts of immigration.

It's so easy for muslims, africans, asians to sit back and go "oh why are white people so racist and hateful".

As if immigrants wouldn't become hostile if they felt they were losing their own culture in their own countries.

[PERIZ99]

@xenomorphelv426 I don't disagree with you frenchy-

[xenomorphelv426]

@PERIZ99 Frenchness is not multiple, either you adapt to French identity or you leave. it's not France to adapt to the immigrants, but immigrants to adapt to France.

[xenomorphelv426]

@cooliojaap yes you're right.

Massive immigration that France sustain since 1970s is the origin of the debate. A parralel France composed with immigrants trying to impose their own mores, culture, religion, tradition.

it's a progressive population substitution. the veritables Frenchs are still here and will resist to the invasion.

[Area69ca]

@cooliojaap You're 100% right, this report is «left-liberal politically correct pro-immigration» propaganda. Fortunately, people are awakening and realizing they're being deceived.