Riots in France?

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Probaly showing my ingorance here but i'll go ahead and ask in the spirit of getting the discussion back on the tracks.

Do these riots bear any likeness to the race riots and civil rights movement we had here in the United States? From what i've seen it looks to be the same, just with different groups and a tad bit different issues. Do they stem from legal inequality, social level differences, or just riots for no reason?

From what I can tell from el_slapper and Meneldil responses it seems to be more pronounced then the race riots that affected several of our cities and the civil rights movement, but less systemic then what happen in the United States.

It seems to be a major clash of cultures and the failure of the Nation of France as a whole to intergrate the new immigrants into the national culture of France. Edit: In simple terms I am getting the impression that France took the immigrants and then shoved them into the corner and tried to forget about them as people.

But that is just my take on it.