Whereas the immigrants are incessantly debated by others, poor whites around Europe are something of a forgotten class. The economic crisis hit them hard. In France, many white working-class people now support Marine Le Pen, leader of the Front National, who has an outside shot at getting elected president in 2017.
.. France remains one of the world’s least unequal countries.
.. “In a middle-class school,” she said, “you are in the conditions of work: sit down, take your books out of your bag, work. That’s not true at schools in poorer areas. When they go home, they often aren’t in conditions of work either. Often they share a bedroom with multiple siblings. Often their parents don’t work, so they are the only ones at home who get up in the morning and go to work.” The problems were similar for native French and immigrant kids, she said, except the latter often didn’t speak fluent French.
.. Did he really see homelessness as an acute threat? “Oh yes!” all three of them chorused. It could happen to anyone. Perhaps that fear is part of what it means to be white working class in Europe today.
.. What worries locals most, says the OSF report, is “incivility”.
.. Whenever she sat next to an old lady on the bus, she waited for the standard lament to pour out: “Our poor France, oh là là là là!”
Lombard had thought hard about why this was. “For old people, the young people are like a different tribe,” she said. “It’s like discovering the Zulus. The old talk as if they are not human: a race of youths.”
Why We’d Be Better Off if Napoleon Never Lost at Waterloo
Hundreds of thousands of historians have pored over the questions of why he attacked when, where and how he attacked. Yet 200 years after the fact, a different question must be asked: Why was the Battle of Waterloo even fought? Was it really necessary to secure the peace and security of Europe?
.. Yet he said he would be remembered not for his military victories, but for his domestic reforms, especially the Code Napoleon, that brilliant distillation of 42 competing and often contradictory legal codes into a single, easily comprehensible body of French law.
.. But the French averted war with the United States over its inevitable expansion westward, and the 80 million francs they received allowed Napoleon to rebuild France, especially its army.
.. Napoleon started none of those wars, but he won all of them.
.. in 1812 he responded to France’s being cut out of Russian markets—in violation of the Tilsit terms—by invading Russia.
If France wanted to stop the Nazi blitzkrieg, what could they have possibly done?
The “Racial Hatred” aspect of Anglo-American French baiting has some root in the experiences of 1917 and 1918 when the British and American forces found the French unwilling or unable to press an attack, though still dogged in defense.
Did the French blame themselves when they were easily defeated and occupied by Germany in WWII?
Everybody seems to ignore that the Brits sent their troops inFrance and these troops were swept away at the same speed as the French . By this time Churchill openly said that the only difference between Britain and France was the English Channel .