It’s undoubtedly true that economic circumstances will have played a part in this. But so too has the perception of those of North African descent who believe they have been discriminated against in a institutionally racist society etc etc ad nauseum
Long term unemployment is a social evil that causes social problems in any society, usually manifesting themselves as a gradual rise in petty crime. The kind of sustained, mass rioting we’ve seen in Paris, however, is symptomatic of deeper, underlying problems. And most people know it. Unfortunately, censorship –whether self-imposed or imposed by the state – stifles discussion on this issue.
Just because the majority of the rioters happened to be born in France doesn’t make them French, any more they would be Japanese if by some circumstance they were born there.
How stable or cohesive can multiracial/multicultural societies ever really be?
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