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Personal Is Political in France
"With which groups do you identify?" asks the controversial questionnaire circulating on the streets of Paris. Respondents are asked to choose among 11 listed ethnicities.The poll, part of a multicultural-marketing research campaign conducted by a small firm called Sopi Communication, is nothing short of revolutionary for France, where collecting information on race, ethnicity or religion is taboo. Sopi's effort is part of a larger trend -- the slow acceptance that France has minorities and that they may have different tastes and needs. especially needs. it's not HUMANE to keep us from slitting the throats of Joos, putting our sisters into the veil and taking over Europe. we got NEEDS you know ... France long has taken the superficial appearance of assimilation to an extreme: Officially, only French and non-French people live here. In the name of equality and integration, the government insists immigrants leave their old identities at the border to join what the French Constitution calls "the Indivisible Republic." Ethnic and religious profiling also is viewed suspiciously in other European countries, in part because the Nazis used government records containing such data to identify Jews during World War II.
Posted by: too true 2005-05-18 |
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