The comforting SELF-IMAGE of France as a model of the Enlightenment VALUES gives way to the fear of NATIONAL DECLINE.
This escalating culture war is part of a grim transformation in the way the French see themselves and themselves in the world. The comforting self-image of France as an important power, source of Western culture and model of Enlightenment values gives way to a fear of national decline. “I am very worried,” says Alain Finkielkraut, philosopher, author and political commentator rooted in the traditional left. “I think we’ve entered a crisis that I’m not sure we can recover from. France is faced with uncontrolled immigration and is experiencing a demographic change unprecedented in our history. Faced with this challenge, a large part of the French elite reacted with a systematic and delusional autoflagellation. And when a part of a people loses the desire to remain true to itself, the situation is extremely serious.
of immigration are widely shared, and not just among Le Pen’s phone number library supporters. The germ of the controversy dates back to the 1950s and 1960s, when French industry encouraged the influx of North African “guest workers” (mainly from countries that France had colonized) as a source of cheap labor. during the post-war reconstruction effort. Their presence was supposed to be temporary, but many of them stayed, raised families and brought relatives from their home countries, settling in growing housing projects. They were joined by subsequent generations, many of them from sub-Saharan Africa, so that in 2019 immigrants made up around 10% of the French population. In 2017, nearly 9% of the country’s inhabitants were Muslims.Central government says there is no communication on seizure of French assets
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Finkielkraut’s concerns about the impact
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