Monday, November 07, 2005

French Riots

Have been following the riots in & around Paris and I have to say this was something that was waiting to happen in the Western World. So we have scores of un-employed youth who are all mostly Muslim all around Europe. These people want to be accepted into mainstream European culture but the Europeans won't let them into their homes and club houses. Most of these folks have seen the real European culture only on TV and don't have any real identity to fall back on.
Europe has a huge problem over the next 25 years as it examines how to deal with these 2nd gen immigrant youth who neither feel accepted by Europe nor can totally fit into their native cultures. Given the low birth rate in Europe & the US (among natives) both these countries would face a huge demographic problem in the next 20-30 years. Would be interesting to see how the Govt's there deal with this problem. But given the right leaning nature of most Western Govt's these days I can only imagine these problems getting worse unless there's real dialogue between the warring factions. (French Govt has by the way dispatched Muslim negotiators to talk to these youth - Totally wrong approach in my opinion. These guys wanna talk to the representatives of mainstream French population and not some muslim leader. So I don't see these negotiations doing any good.)

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