Is France starting to lose it’s national identity?
Is France starting to lose it’s national identity? http://www.nando.net/newsroom/ntn/world/061398/world7_1951_noframes.html
And where do liberty, fraternity, and equality fit in with urban violence, disaffected youth, joblessness, homelessness, collapsing authority, political scandal, police brutality, racism and xenophobia?
The Front, a France-first party which blames society’s worst ills on North African immigrants and globalization, scares many people. Leader Le Pen’s polished veneer often fails to mask a bully beneath. He has been convicted of roughing up and insulting a woman Socialist candidate and banned [sic] from political office for three years. He once belittled the Holocaust as a detail of history.
“We need much more dialogue,” she concluded, “but the French don’t know how to engage in dialogue.”