SSC Film Studies

Link: http://www.frumforum.com/frances-assimilation-failure/

key points:
-Immigration is slowly becoming a major issue in the French political debate, but it is at the same time extremely difficult to discuss in a rational manner.
-it has been nearly impossible to criticize the immigration policy without being called a racist, even though the immigration issue has never been about race.

-The people living on the French territory, wherever they come from, have to share the same legal system, especially in a centralized, non-federal state like France. That includes among other things, a civil code with dispositions on family relations, marriage and so on. That also includes a lot of implicit dispositions, tolerances or approximations that pose no problem as long as the country is culturally homogeneous.

-the French secular state does not subsidize religious institutions, but it does subsidize historical monuments, which happen to include a lot of churches. The catholic church has been treated harshly when the separation between the church and the state took place in 1905, so this state of things may be an implicit historical compensation. In any case, nobody had a problem with this until Islam became a big religion in France, hence the debate about places of worship.

there is clearly a racial problem in france, but to sort out the issue france would either need to completely change their outlook on the problem or kick every immigrant out. both options are extreme and will cause more problems and resistance from the public.