France is the 19th most populous country in the world. The total French population is estimated to be 63,718,187 with around 60, 876,135 living in metropolitan France. The largest cities in France are Paris, Marseille, Lyon, Lille, Toulouse, Nice, and Nantes The French society has a wide diversity of people and ethnicities. Ethnic groups include Celtic, Latin, Teutonic, Slavic, North African, Indochinese, in addition to the Basque minorities in the south. However, there is a large percentage of immigrants in France (Legal & Illegal). In 2004 a total of 140,033 people immigrated to France, 90,250 were from Africa, and 13,710 were from Europe, the following year immigration fell to 135,890. According to to the French National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies, France has an estimate of 4.9 million foreign born immigrants, 2 million of which have acquired French citizenship.
A way to ask the question concerning minorities and adjustment is to consider whether the French are racists. Do they practice diversity? Do they treat their ethnic minorities well? The simple answer is that “yes” racism does exist in France, just as it exists in all other countries and cultures. As with all other people, it is a complex situation. Official records show that there is racism at work in employment. Unemployment for French nationals hovers around 10%. Yet, for the foreign or ethnic population that figure is on the upside of 20% at all times. Just looking at second generation North
In this article, it talks greatly about what nouvelle racism is and how it is being demonstrated in society today through movies. Nouvelle racism is a form of racism that is different from racism that is generally used in conversation in the past and today. This kind of racism does not include throwing around nasty words, however it is more of a nonverbal way of conveying the same rude message. In the movie The Day Time Ended, there is an all white cast along with five Asians who are on a tropical island that is threatened by a volcano that is becoming active. The movie blends together three elements of nouvelle racism that aim to discriminate the Asian cast members. The first element they used in the movie was doing whatever it took to make
This issue of racism is popular by name but tends to be sugar coated by the way people see it. In order to truly understand racism you need to take a bite into the topic in order to get a taste of what it is really like. Racism comes in many different forms and can be seen many different ways. But why even care about racism at all? Why does it even matter? One would think that with such a harsh background regarding racism in America it would no longer exist in society today. But sadly that is not the case here, racism continues to show up all over the country sometimes being worse than others but still racism is racism. People should all be considered equal regardless of what they look like, talk like, or even do that makes them who they are.
Systematic racism continues to perpetuate the marginalization of people of color in the 21st century despite belief of living in a post racial society. This unfortunate reality is seen in many different forms of current culture. One of the ways systematic racism takes current form, is in the negative portrayal created by a single narrative, or the lack thereof, minority groups. This lack of representation or diversity of people of color in different forms of art and platforms, not only affects those subject to misrepresentation, but perpetuates negative attitudes and discriminatory behavior towards those subject to misrepresentation. It is necessary to look into the ways this single narrative in different art forms affects marginalized group, and the current move to dismantle the component power plays in who gets to tell these stories.
Race and ethnicity are concepts that are constantly associated with the many hateful crimes and events occurring all around us in our daily lives. The race of an individual is an extremely convoluted subject matter in the social world. Discrimination against specific groups of people remains till this day one of the most severe issues that we stumble on, leaving many of us in shock, and consternation. Racism against a certain ethnic group often arises from embedded false assumptions that is associated with the group and their cultural behaviors. There are various different ways in which racism takes form; racism directed towards individuals with Jewish origins is often referred to as anti-Semitism, while racism that is directed towards Muslims is known as Islamophobia. Racism is embodied in various ways, allowing one group to have full authority, holding more political, social, and economic power. Discrimination and racism has a major effect on the victims, the victim’s family, as well as the community around them. Considering that racism is an immensely broad subject, this paper will focus on discrimination in that aboriginal people encounter everyday. Using Max Weber’s classification of inequality, aboriginals hold an extremely low position in class as well as status, as they acquire low or nearly no social prestige or life chances. Firstly, this paper will explore the reality behind first nations in the working force, as well as its affects on on the individual. Secondly,
Racism plays a substantial part in our nations history; from slavery in the seventeenth century through the nineteenth century, to segregation in the early 1900s. The extreme racism of those days are long gone, and continue to just be a memory of the past. Although, prejudice still exists and it always will, because our brains are hardwired to prefer one race to another. That being said; a white person that grows up in an all white neighborhood who also attends an all-white school will very well prefer white people. Same goes for other races as well. But why do we think this way? How does our brain distinguish race and why do we prefer one group of people over another? I have gathered some evidence as to why we think this way and why our brains process racial differences the way they do.
Following the postwar era , the 20th century marked an atmosphere of a certain spirit of positivity and change that soon flooded the world, hitting impactfully in the United States. The quest for racial equality as well as qender quality began.
There are many religious and racial persecutors presently. The number of victimizers is rising given many recent occurings. Events in France are impacting us here in the United States of America, 7,661 kilometers away. I am a Muslim and these events have impacted me, my family, and many other followers of Islam. Disasters such as bombings and shootings fuel ill-treatment towards certain races by giving racists evidence to back up their hateful claims.
After being arrested in the United States, African Americans are 52% more likely to be detained than whites while facing a felony trial. For decades, Americans were being judgmental towards each other based on the complexion of another person’s skin. It is now 2015, and racism is still a big factor in our country. So, why does racism still exist after all these year? Racism will always be the thorn in our sides that keeps our country from truly accepting our differences and our opinions or lifestyles. African Americans are the most targeted racial group when it comes to racism in America because defiance and hatred for black people is an essential part of Euro/Americanized culture. As the young African American is leaning down to drink water, there’s another fountain to his left. These fountains can be exemplified as how black and whites were separated from having equality and the same rights. The one that looks better and splendid, is used for whites. While the fountain that African Americans drink from, looks older and less appealing. Even though the water may have tasted the same, the quality of what black people had possessed wasn’t the same as whites, and that had an effect on society. It made our society discriminate ones race with no purpose or reasoning. According to the CNN.com, cultural discrimination results from social stereotyping and leads to poor communication and interpersonal relationships. Because of racism, humans will always have a judgement like
The social issue I chose as my topic is racism. If you ever questioned what it would be like to live in the 1930’s or 1950’s, you don’t have to look far. Right now at this moment America is living through it. The individuals involve are presenting how ugly America really is. Dressed in khakis and polo’s, bearing torches, putting on Nazi memorabilia, and chanting anti-black, anti-immigrant, anti-LGBT, anti-Jewish, anti-Muslim chants, white supremacist racists have descended on Charlottesville, VA., in crowds that may very well be the largest public rally of its kind in generations. With almost no resistance from local police, these public racists have marched all over town giving Nazi salutes while chanting. They have shouted every racial slur imaginable and have done so with the full knowledge that they are being filmed. And this was all before someone used a car like a torpedo to plow into a crowd. We are living in a dangerous, unstable time and I'm sure that Charlottesville isn't an outlier, but an indicator of things to come. Whatever you thought about 2017 in America, if ugliness, racism, and hatred aren't at the center of your thoughts, then you should think again.
France and the United States have similar different approaches when dealing with the surplus of recent migrants. In present day France, in order to enter the country you need to have an entry permit if the individual plans on staying more than 90 days in the country and if the individual wants a stay document then the individual needs an entry permit. The individual must be approved by the French Consulate. If an individual wants to travel among the countries of the European Union an individual must apply and receive a Schengen Visa. An individual that wants to receive a working or student permit must apply for a long permit. This is very similar to the United States immigration system in order to entry the country an individual needs to
Illegal and irregular immigration into France has also been the cause of much controversy and debate. The French government estimates that it has somewhere near 400,000 illegal immigrants living within its borders, and an additional 100,000 entering the country each year. The French National Institute of Statistics has determined that 5.3 million immigrants born outside of France now reside within the borders, and an additional 6.9 million undocumented individuals reside within the country as a result of being born to parents who are illegally living there. The government has now set a goal to deport at least 35,000 undocumented individuals each year, and recorded deporting 28,000 in 2011. The French mainly blame this massive influx on the Schengen area, because the freedom of movement has allowed thousands to enter the country completely undetected. This problem has gotten so bad that the French government is now considering leaving the Schengen area all together, once again closing its borders to outsiders who cannot show a valid passport.
To understand whether or not racism is learnt, we first have to divulge into the nature of racism. It is usually assumed that racism has been a part of civilisation since civilisation started, that it is embedded into how people work and that no matter what, it will always exist. Another assumption is that racism derives from the capitalism of the slave trade by white elitist men seeking to dehumanize people for economic gain, and used racism as a way to mask their financial motives to justify enslavement as righteous. After anti-slavery movements began to happen, the capitalist motives behind slavery “took on a new form as the justification of the ideology of imperialism” [4].
In a global world it is usual for a country to be composed of different people; France is no different. According to wikipedia.com, about 66,394,000 people live in the French Republic and 94% of them are French citizens. The ethnic composition of France is varied. People living in France have French or Gallic ethnic backgrounds “but there are also small groups of Flemings, Catalans, Germans, Armenians, Gypsies, Russians, Poles, and others. The largest resident alien groups are Algerians, Portuguese, Moroccans, Italians, Spaniards, Tunisians, and Turks” (nationsencyclopedia.com). According to wikipedia.com, in 2008 5.3 million people immigrated to France. From this total, 38% were from Europe (especially from Italy, Spain, and Portugal), 42% from Africa, 5% from the Oceania and Americas, and 14% from Asia.
The French are all about preserving their culture and being individualized. They often take great pride in the French products and the French style, and believe in keeping the French culture “pure” so they also limit the amount of foreign goods that are being imported. But during the World Wars the French began to allow foreigners to immigrate into France to take jobs due to an increase in job shortages. The immigration from the World Wars added to the diversity of the French culture. Ever since the 1850’s there has been a steady flow of immigration into France, and now nine percent of the French population is made up of immigrants (Gofen 62). The break down of the cultures in France is eighty-five percent of the French population is Roman
France (officially known as Republique Francaise) is a country in western Europe , as well as several overseas regions and territories. The capital and largest city in France is Paris. According to WorldPopulationReview , France has a population of about 64,971,5599. And also 85% of the population of Metropolitan France was white or of European origin, with 10% from North Africa, 3.5% Black (Sub-saharan African) and 1.5% Asian. And for religion , France consist of 63-66% Christian , 23-28% Irreligious , 7-9% Muslim , 0.5-0.75% Buddhist , 0.5-0.75% Jewish , 0.5-1.0% other. France has a big growing population of Sub-saharan immigrants , and they most likely come from francophone