Re: The Muslim Batman.
Meh, one third of French citizens born are non-white. Young urban French life is majority non-white in nearly all cities over 100k inhabitants. Paris itself is a few wealthy arrondissements with some Frenchmen, and some Frenchmen in the southern and western quiet sleepy suburbs. Otherwise, the city is Jewish, North African (some areas ever since the early 20th century), gypsie, Portuguese, Vietnamese and Chinese, Black, expat, plus import French from all over.
Young 'French' Parisians are either upper class, and busy thenmselves with their posh lycées and ballet lessons and littérature. Or they are lower class, and as such a minority without the cultural self-assuredness of their upper and middle class compatriots, and have therefore succumbed to the same 'urban' culture as their African compatriots. Lower class French culture in the cities is increasingly indistuingishable from Black and Beur urban culture. They wear the same clothes, speak the same barbarian French, listen to the same rap and Yello and whatever.
In a sense, the lower class mimicks the upper class in its cosmopolitanism and easygoing intercultural exchange. It is the French middle class which is left feeling estranged, which is alone, neither naturally cosmopolitan like the upper class, nor willing to adopt a multicultural urban culture like the lower class.
This is so unrealistic this entire comic book becomes offensive!Originally Posted by lars573
..Nobody gets shot in France for burning down a police station.
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