[TopQuark]

Hmmmm. Everybdy hates the Frogs. What's this telling us?

Nothing at all: in this case, we learn nothing about the French, and a great deal about the native-born Africans of that country. This is racism, pure and simple: they are hated merely for being white. And you are too.

[madvlad]

You mean like the Romans were hated for being white?
White oppressors.

I imagine that this hatred has been welling for
decades. Then it explodes. Then you either
send in your army to maintain your "former" colony
or else you cut and run.

MV

[Modernman]

Nothing at all: in this case, we learn nothing about the French, and a great deal about the native-born Africans of that country. This is racism, pure and simple: they are hated merely for being white. And you are too.

The French are hated because they've forced the democratically elected government of the Ivory Coast to accept a "Unity Government" with a rebel group that has ties to international terrorism.