On Tue, 8 Nov 2005 06:32:07 -0800, Shawn Gordon <[log in to unmask]> 
wrote:

>At 04:41 AM 11/8/2005, J Dolliver wrote:
>>The french seem to know Barboque this week. The whole country is
>>burning!  So what can we learn from the French on this issue.
>
>I think it's more a matter of what the French and Europe can learn
>from us.  The rest of Europe has breathlessly been trying to ape the
>French security that has kept them terrorist free.  There are
>cetainly comparisons to be made to the civil unrest of the 60's, but
>the glaring difference is that with black america you had a group of
>people with essentially a shared heritage as they had been here since
>almost the beginning, shared a language, culture and a lot of history
>(forced or not, the great majority had lived here for
>generations).  The difference in most of Europe is that the people
>from muslim countries are being brought in as cheap labor to help
>prop up the socialist state and there seems no desire on either side
>to integrate these people totally in to society.

You mean like the South Americans here in the US?
I see daily how integrated they are here.
So what's to learn?
BTW I also see how integrated the African Americans as well as Native 
Americans are. Specially in the South.
Everybody lives in his neigborhood and the Native Americans in there 
Reservations. Thats were the "white" folks go to gamble ;-> as it is 
illegal in most other places.

Michael

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