French Riots

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The people of North African descenct (i.e., Algerians and Moroccons, etc) have been living in France for over several generations now, and of course, due to their extremely rich and diverse religious, and geographical culture, they have not been able to mingle with the average Frenchman, mostly, because the intolerant and traditional egotistical nature of the French. Minorities in other European nations face the same issues, but they all have a plan to tackle these problems.

The UK was the first to experience a major wave of immigrants from India and Pakistan, which lead to the creation of the derogatory slur: "Paki", which was used to patronize people of South Asian (Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indian and Sri Lanka) and even Middle Eastern descent, and there is still a lot of contention between the local white populace and the immigrants, however, due to the huge population of the latter, the British locals are kept in check.

The French on the other hand, never bothered to address the issue of racialism, intolerance, and inter-racial relations, nor did they ever consider these immigrants as equals, or even close. After years and years of repression by the French people and the government, and with the government stamping new sanctions on what people can and can not wear in public schools, the inner hatred in this massive minotry blew up in the face of communal riots.

There was a protest in progress, where two middle eastern kids were standing amongst a group of people, when they thought the police was beginning a chase after them. They ran twoards a fence that was armed with high voltage electricity, and because they were so scared, they jumped on to it, and were badly charred and electrocuted to death. One of the three kids somehow managed to survive, and told this to local officials.

Some local politician visited these ghettos where the North Africans (Berbers, who were taken over by the Arabs during the Goldern Era of the Islamic civilization many centuries ago. These berbers mixed with the Arabs, but there is still discord between the two groups in the North African nations) live, and called the protests and the area as "gangrene" and "rabble", which sparked huge riots in the city of Clichy and even Paris and the outlying suburbs.

Till date, over a thousand cars and trucks have been torched amidst these riots, and there have been peaceful protests in other places, but the whole situation is being handled in a very unorganized fashion by the authorities. France needs to address the issue of inter-racial mixing before a second revolution is stirred up.