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Afro-French Urge "Positive Discrimination"
More than two-thirds of Afro-French people want "positive discrimination" to make up for their under-representation, especially in high rungs of the government's ladder, a new survey showed on Monday, April 25.The survey, conducted by the CSA polling group, found that 64 percent of French of African origin want a specific quota in the county's high-profile public posts. Fifty-seven percent of the polled believe that Afro-French deserve better political representation. Around 68 percent of the respondents said it would be "impossible" to see an Afro-French in the Elysee. A Sorbonne research released last year by the French Observatory Against Racism found that names and dark complexion represent an obstacle to jobseekers. There is no official number of people of African origin in France as laws ban census based on ethnic or religious grounds. But unofficial estimates indicate that Afro-French represent 10 percent of the country's some 70 million population. Posted by: Fred 2006-04-26 |
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