Ahh, us weird Frenchies... (Score 2, Insightful)

I flew over the comment page and read many of them though not all of them, and I didn't see any French replying to this, so I figured out it'd a good idea to reply. I could tell you guys what I think it is happening here, in our beloved country. As many of you have stated, France built housing projects for the poorest people to live in, and immigrants and their descendance had no other choice than to go live there. Though, in France, when you're down there, you sort of get stuck down there and you can't really expect the same opportunities as the "less poor" people living in houses. It is hard to explain, but these people slowly built their own communitity, they've been cast apart by the rest of us French and ignored for too long; now they're called scum. Wouldn't you be pissed that, not only do you live in housing projects and can't get a job, but you also are ignored by the country ? People living there have a stamp mark on their faces, and are considered as troublemakers. And we can't say that it's about religion or the fact that they came from foreign countries, because white French boys live in those places: they're rioters too. Religion as little to do with all this. Have you people seen the movie "La Haine" - the American title is Hate" - by Matthieu Kassovitz ? It is exactly the same thing, EXACTLY the same - The police injures a young immigrant from the suburbs while interrogating him. He later dies . - This event sparks riots everywhere in Paris suburbs. - The police is everywhere. - Cars are burning. The riots, the burning cars... this is not the point. The point is that the youth have nothing else to do than to fuck around everyday, do drugs, and deal with policemen. The police and the youth hate each other. The only thing they can do to get attention from the whole country is to set it on fire. And that's what they did. La Haine was shot in 1991; we're in 2005, the situation did NOT evolve.