French officials have been issuing fines to immigrants who disrespect the French national anthem, la Marseillaise. The policy was designed to reduce tensions over immigration and make integration "work".
However, the problem remains unresolved:
source: TFI
In response to the latest incident above, France's President, Nicolas Sarkozy, has warned that the next step is to cancel football games when French immigrant youth disrespect the national anthem. This is a critical development for several reasons:
Bonus riddle: because the French football team and the woman singing the national anthem in the video are just as foreign-looking as the Tunisian team...who is booing who?
However, the problem remains unresolved:
In response to the latest incident above, France's President, Nicolas Sarkozy, has warned that the next step is to cancel football games when French immigrant youth disrespect the national anthem. This is a critical development for several reasons:
- encouraging French immigrant youth to hide their true feelings will
only hide France's integration problems, it will not solve them.
- if the immigrant population is discouraged from revealing its feelings in public, those who follow the French team will be blind to the immigration crisis, and continue to support Sarkozy, who wants more immigrants, cultural diversity and intermixing. Just as importantly, the public will continue to laugh at the idea of a pro-French resistance and Le Pen's Front National, a party that will stop the foreignization of France.
Bonus riddle: because the French football team and the woman singing the national anthem in the video are just as foreign-looking as the Tunisian team...who is booing who?
