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I have been away from TIG since weeks. I am busy surely busy with my job and studies in anthropology, but it s only difficult for me to talk about my country nowadays.
To be sincere i rarely feel French even though i am French by blood, birth, education etc.
But well i didn't decide to write this post to write about my identity.

No. I am here to try to show a bit more of what France is actually, mostly since Sarkozy is president.

Those who know me know I didnt vote for Nicolas Sarkozy. So I will make efforts to try to be neutral.


FACTS

Sarkozy got a bit more than 50% (53% or so)of the votes during the second turn of presidential elections in May 2007.

Sarkozy and his team are close to many firms and do a lot to make firms be more competitive.

They also have auctions in 80% of the medias in France.


I do not think that a president linked to so many firms and especially medias is positive for a democracy.
I am surely more 'democrat' or left side than 'republican' UMP right side (Sarkozy's political party) but i would appreciate is French medias could at times, especially TV, critizes his actions, or at least talk about the opinion of his opponents or of any citizen who disagree with him.

I would also appreciate if Nicolas Sarkozy could remember that he has some ministres to help him, and that he doesnt have to solve all problems that media say about by himself.


RIOTS etc

Sarkozy and his gouvernement say it s not a social problem but only a matter of delinquent who just destroy anything.
Most sociologists and anthropologists think that delinquency is never without sense, and about french suburbs, they claim the problem is a lack of integration of young people living in poor area.

There was an accident last week between a police car and a mini motorbike in a suburb. The two teens who were on the bike died. Medias said that the bike was driving too fast and that the policemen were driving slowly.
But the images we watched on medias showed a police car half destroyed. Medias then said young men came and destroyed the police car after the accident.
The day after, we were told that someone snapped the accident on his mobile phone and that the police car was only destroyed by the accident.
Fadela Amara then said that an inuqiry is now starting. I wish next time media and gouvernment wont tell us what happened somewhere before the beginning of the inquiry.. or that the car is destroyed cos men came to destroy only the front side of the car...

To tell you all that s scaring me in my country actually would take me a book or two.
I just wanted to add :
a law was voted so that migrants who want to come to France to join their family will do blood test to check if they are really from the family they claim
medias spent hours talking about 'hostages' cos of strikes, mostly insulting strikers.


I wish i am wrong but all this is getting closer to dictatorship and it reminds me a time when we used to say Jewish were...
Let me not talk too much. I just wanted you to know more about France, my opinion doesnt matter much facts does.



December 9, 2007 | 11:10 AM Comments  0 comments

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