Comments on: Long Sunday, Paris, and New Orleans http://www.pathawi.net/b-log/2005/11/12/long-sunday-paris-and-new-orleans/ Pensaments of an Anthropological Patzer Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:51:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: NotSoMuch http://www.pathawi.net/b-log/2005/11/12/long-sunday-paris-and-new-orleans/#comment-54 NotSoMuch Wed, 16 Nov 2005 00:06:05 +0000 http://www.pathawi.net/b-log/2005/11/12/long-sunday-paris-and-new-orleans/#comment-54 Immigate to France. Set up household. Be married to another immigant. Have kids born in France. They grow up, marry other descendants of immigrants. In turn, their kids grow up, have kids with other immigrants, kids of immigrants or grandchildren of immigrants ... and THOSE kids (born in France of people born in France who were born of others born in France) are not French citizens. Generations removed from the country they emigrated from; generations born and living in the country ... but no rights of citizenship. Wonder why they feel alienated ... wonder why they ACT alienated which is the real point. "Feel alienated all you want. We won't stop you. It is when you start fire-bombing property that we have to bring in the police, then the army, then the curfews, then the declarations of martial law for 3 months TO STOP YOU acting alienated ... you non-citizens." Immigate to France. Set up household. Be married to another immigant. Have kids born in France. They grow up, marry other descendants of immigrants. In turn, their kids grow up, have kids with other immigrants, kids of immigrants or grandchildren of immigrants … and THOSE kids (born in France of people born in France who were born of others born in France) are not French citizens.
Generations removed from the country they emigrated from; generations born and living in the country … but no rights of citizenship. Wonder why they feel alienated … wonder why they ACT alienated which is the real point. “Feel alienated all you want. We won’t stop you. It is when you start fire-bombing property that we have to bring in the police, then the army, then the curfews, then the declarations of martial law for 3 months TO STOP YOU acting alienated … you non-citizens.”

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