[Alberta's Child]

While almost all are French citizens, they are not part of the French people. For never have they been assimilated into French culture or society. And some wish to remain who and what they are. They live in France but are not French.

Buchanan raises some excellent points in this article, but this comment is very curious. I would make the case that these immigrants have never been assimilated into French culture simply because there is no such thing as a French culture. The whole point of a modern socialist state is that the underlying "culture" is diminished in the face of a bland, secular nanny-state that saps its people of all ingenuity, creativity, etc. If France had any culture it would need a stupid "French language institute" to prevent the infiltration of English words into their language, nor would they have 10,000-15,000 elderly people dying of heat-related medical conditions a couple of summers ago while everyone in the country was on a month-long vacation.

[Alberta's Child]

Sorry -- need to make a correction . . .

If France had any culture it wouldn't need a stupid "French language institute" to prevent the infiltration of English words into their language . . .

[B Knotts]

I think there is a French culture. After all, somebody had to invent surrendering.