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To: investigateworld

"Beur" is "verlan", which is to say inverted slang for "Arabe", inflected by the idea of Berber. "Les Beurs" are the Arabs of France, North African by origin.

This is the great challenge of France, to assimilate les Beurs.


54 posted on 06/01/2005 10:16:36 PM PDT by Vicomte13 (Et alors?)
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To: Vicomte13

Thanks
Are they the ones who appear in the morning to sweep the streets of Paris? (Forgive the stupid questions, my time in France was too short to understand everything)


55 posted on 06/01/2005 10:41:26 PM PDT by investigateworld ( God bless Poland for giving the world JP II & a Protestant bump for his Sainthood!)
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