
Yes, France has serious issues as do many other countries in Europe. This is one output when a country has a large population of immigrants that doesn't integrate into the population. We do a better job of that here because we're almost all immigrants.
In Europe they separate into ghettos and really never integrate into the society. They never gain any loyalty to the country they are in. In fact, they start to resent the country. Part of it is their own fault through their self imposed separation. Part of it is the country and its indigenous people because they treat the outsiders as different and often as second class citizens.
Again, in the US we're all different so this doesn't happen as often or to the same degree. There isn't one dominant ethnicity here. French, Italian, Greek, German, English, or anything else isn't the single majority. This allows different people to blend into the differences.
I believe that most of the unrest in France is their own doing. OF late they have had a lot of immigrants coming from the war torn areas of the middle east who do not want to conform to France rule They want to conform France to their rules. Then you have the French younger generations who are upset at the older generation and ruling parties who feel that their laws are unfair to them. It makes a big pot of trouble.
Paris counts on tourism for its income so this will not be good. There are other methods that can be used like don't drive or mass mobs. The burning down of things does not go over well with me.
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After letting this escalate the French PM decides to not raise fuel prices but he has left the people so angry that they do not seem to want to stop.
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