<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/5/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">scerir</b> <<a href="mailto:scerir@libero.it">scerir@libero.it</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
From: "spike"<br><br>> Specific question: they keep saying these<br>> are the worst riots since the 1968 student<br>> uprisings. What were they rioting about<br>> in 1968?<br><br>In 1968 French students (and workers) were rioting
<br>against the old politics (Gaullism), the 'establishment',<br>the old culture, and all that. But the same happened<br>in Italy, in Germany, in California (remember Marcuse? and<br>Angela Davis?), etc.<br><br>Now *immigrants* (not just the old 'Pieds-Noirs', but also
<br>arabs and people coming from east) are rioting, around Paris,<br>because they cannot get a job, because of money. The economy<br>in France (but the same thing in Germany, and in Italy, etc.)<br>is in bad condition. Our growth is < 1%. Your (US) growth is
<br>well > 3%.</blockquote><div><br>
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More succinctly, Moslems don't integrate and still want the fruits of integration.<br>
It's trouble that is only going to get worse.<br>
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Dirk<br>