As you correctly point out, the Turks, Serbs, and Greeks invited to work in German factories are not very happy about the way they are treated as compared to the East Germans and Volga Germans.
The fact that many in the suburbs are second or third generations French, with better claims on being French than Sarkozym doesn’t help calm things down.
]]>The only problem Michael may have on his research trip would be if the unions decide to take action.
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Le Pen hates Sarkozy because the UMP stole some his ideas and attitudes, and Sarkozy is certainly not Le Pen’s idea of a Frenchman.
Enjoy, you will be watching history in the making, and have an opportunity to record it first hand.
]]>Sarkozy is to the French in some sense what the Boy Who Would Be King is to us–he’s somebody who’s been a political insider for most of his adult life who somehow managed to convince enough people–largely by stealing other people’s rhetoric, ideas, and programs, and passing them off as his–to vote for him as an “outsider” candidate and an engine for “change.”
On the plus side, if Sarkozy does indeed start seriously mucking around with the Code de la nationalité française for the first time since 1945, hey, that’s another automatic chapter for my dissertation.
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