[Dallas59]

The unrest has forced France to squarely confront the touchy issue of the poor suburbs ringing big cities populated by immigrants and their French children.

They are majority Muslims who have FAILED to assimilate themselves into Western society...

[Bob J]

It's more than that. The arrogant french needed unskilled labor to sweep their streets and clean their toilets, they also loved the image as "the compassionate france" who took in millions of the wretched refuse.

The problem is the immigrants were never accepted as really "french" in french society and were ushered to the back of th bus where they wouldn't be seen nor would they regularly come in contact with the "real french.