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Originally Posted by Airbornelawyer
So the rioting we saw in France in the 2000s wasn't merely urban youths venting their frustration at low job prospects, but arguably a proto-insurgency among people who don't see themselves as French or European and who don't buy into the European social contract I noted above.
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Is assimilation a one way or a two way street?
The West (broadly conceived) spent centuries defining itself what it was in terms of what it wasn't. As contact with "the other" increasingly becomes a feature of every day life, what can/should/might be done to the old ways so that different groups of people will be more willing to buy in to the system?