Thought this was an article from an american or british newspaper at first … But no it’s indeed coming from the UN website.
Another « expert » on the matter gives a conclusion without studying the problem. Everything noted in the article could apply to any poor person in France.
Yes climbing the social ladder is broken in France, but there is no evidence that people of African descent are having significantly more difficulty, except that they are over represented in the poorest people within the country. Anyone starting from the bottom will face gatekeeping unfortunately. There is racism like everywhere else, but the problem is more of a class / financial problem than a racial one.
can somebody link me the data I can not find it in the article
Here’s my thought on that: France is way more complex than that, even if you are European French, social circles are extremely important. What African descent live is more or less equally lived by the modest people. Just that it doesn’t really interest international eyes, being acknowledged as miserable seems to be a privilege of certain community in the West. Being African or Arab alone doesn’t really get you discriminated, it does to some extent however coming with a “I’m from the cité” attitude is going to get you 100% discriminated. And that’s where the bias is, MENA descents are massively living in the cités and exposed to this “culture”. If you look around in France you’ll find plenty of MENA descent working in proper jobs, at least I can say there’s no such thing as systemic discrimination.
Now that France is busy being cancelled, the holy army of Luxemburg can finalise its long planned expansion into Metz
There’s a very simple solution to this “problem”. Stop importing them and send the ones that are in France back to Africa. Very easy.
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Thought this was an article from an american or british newspaper at first … But no it’s indeed coming from the UN website.
Another « expert » on the matter gives a conclusion without studying the problem. Everything noted in the article could apply to any poor person in France.
Yes climbing the social ladder is broken in France, but there is no evidence that people of African descent are having significantly more difficulty, except that they are over represented in the poorest people within the country. Anyone starting from the bottom will face gatekeeping unfortunately. There is racism like everywhere else, but the problem is more of a class / financial problem than a racial one.
can somebody link me the data I can not find it in the article
Here’s my thought on that: France is way more complex than that, even if you are European French, social circles are extremely important. What African descent live is more or less equally lived by the modest people. Just that it doesn’t really interest international eyes, being acknowledged as miserable seems to be a privilege of certain community in the West. Being African or Arab alone doesn’t really get you discriminated, it does to some extent however coming with a “I’m from the cité” attitude is going to get you 100% discriminated. And that’s where the bias is, MENA descents are massively living in the cités and exposed to this “culture”. If you look around in France you’ll find plenty of MENA descent working in proper jobs, at least I can say there’s no such thing as systemic discrimination.
Now that France is busy being cancelled, the holy army of Luxemburg can finalise its long planned expansion into Metz
There’s a very simple solution to this “problem”. Stop importing them and send the ones that are in France back to Africa. Very easy.