CNN.com - Report: Cell phone talking while driving on the rise - Dec 16, 2005
This report is quite low if my observations are correct. However there is a simple solution. It has two parts.
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Expatica’s French news in English: Damage done: riots have tarnished France’s image
More support for the position that France has no right to point the finger of disapproval at the U.S. or any other nation with a smug air of superiority. French society is just as biased and despicable as many others.
More background:
Discrimination
France keeps poor Muslims fed, housed and educated, but has not effectively addressed the social or political isolation they feel from job and housing discrimination.
Many young French Muslims find themselves questioning where they really belong. They have weaker ties than their parents did to their ancestral countries, but they are also discovering that, contrary to what they have been taught in school, they are not fully French.
Already, French-Arabs and French-Africans make up the majority of inmates in France’s prisons.
In April, Amnesty International singled out the violence and racism of the French police towards the non-white people of the suburbs for particular criticism.
I watch the news each night in awe at the complete lack of recognition of the simple fact that the level of cultural conflict in Europe far exceeds that in the US.
For years the Europeans — yes, I am painting with a broad brush intentionally — have accepted large numbers of immigrants from many nations while systematically denying them the ability to compete in the society and culture that they see daily.
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