traderfut, France is a fiercely catholic religion . Their culture is tolerant. They "tolerate" thousands of places for alternative religions to practice. It is absurd and offensive to make a false statement that they will say no 'whenever a Muslim asks for a mosque'. Again, there are THOUSANDS of places for Muslims to worship. Eight grand mosques alone prove an acceptance and tolerance for alternative life styles. Personally I don't go for the French culture although traveling regularly to the South of France to visit with my daughter offers me the chance to experience a wonderful country. You say you don't like false information and neither do I, that is why I wish to correct you. If you say things that are untrue you lose your case, as anything you print after that starts to automatically have doubt attached to it and little believability.
France is a fiercely catholic religion . Their culture is tolerant. They "tolerate" thousands of places for alternative religions to practice How can you say it's tolerant??? barely heard of that... a bunch of racist don't forget that 1 people out of 5 voted le pen and that according to a poll from les echos 65% of french belive there are too many arab in france... is that tolerance???? And if you don't even have the honesty to say you are wrong after reading both articles then what else do you want???
Maybe things have changed since I last paid attention. But I believe if it isn't still the case, until recently to get a birth certificate in France, a name (middle name would do) had to be that of a Catholic Saint. So I suppose if an Arab was born in France, he could be named Mohammed Joseph Arafat. Or a Jew would have to be something like Irving Christopher Goldstein. Is this still the law of the land in France? I know I am not up to date, and this may no longer exist, but for sure, it was the law at one time, and not so long ago. So how can France not be technically a "theocracy" if this is the way it is, or was? Tolerant? Maybe. But still..... To force the naming of a child seems to imply a limit of "tolerance". Correct me if I am misinformed. rs7
It changed and I would even say that since 1990 things evolved.. Before very few north african could have a job or even considered for a position... It was an openly racist country.. I recall the first time I landed In fracne and I have been told go back to your country... Now let's face it.. Not everything is that dark. Situation improved people have more respects for african in general and they start having decent job according to their qualifications but still you need to work harder and be much brighter when your skin is darker... That's it.. But I don't blame all the french there are very good people in this country but still a lot to do..
Well, they may be "good" people, but they have a strong tendency to be quite RUDE!! I spent quite a bit of time in France. I worked for a while in Monte Carlo. I think I once went through this before on ET. In Paris they did not like my accent, and ignored me when I asked for directions. In Cannes, (or maybe it was Marseilles r Nice, I don't remember exactly), I asked for white ice cream because i couldn't remember the word for vanilla (which, ironically is vanille). And they were not only non responsive, but they were rude, and nasty. And they caused myself and my wife quite a bit of discomfort. Now maybe it is not that they are rude to everyone. Maybe they just don't like Americans. When we deplaned in NY, and the customs people told all those with French passports that they would have to wait until the Americans were accommodated first, a round of applause broke out. So apparently it wasn't just me. I hate to say this, it is so trite, but the fact remains that if the French don't like the way Americans speak french...they don't like our accent, where is the appreciation for us that if it were not for American soldiers liberating France, their beautiful language would probably have been displaced with the German language. Talk about "guttural". Peace, rs7