Au revoir ummuah!
“France’s interior minister has made it clear that immigrants who refuse to “assimilate” into French society should be denied French citizenship.”
Candidates will be tested on French culture and history, and will have to prove their French language skills are equivalent to those of a 15-year-old mother tongue speaker.
So they're only going to admit cunning linguists? /James Bond reference>
Cheers!
I think it’s the right thing to do. In Texas, where I live, I’m very sick and tired of everything having to be printed in both English and Spanish, at great expense to the taxpayers. FGS—our voting ballots are even printed in Spanish!
How dumb is that!
If the US tried to do this the UN and the world would scream.
Good for the French!
They lifted the ban on soap? :)
The Nation of France is doing what it should have had the sense to do years ago. Use the USA as an example.
The United States welcomed and absorbed literally millions of the “Tired, Poor, yearning to be free” and did what?
Each retained their native culture, but their children were taught in American schools, learning ENGLISH, AMERICAN history, AMERICAN culture and those immigrant children grew up to be AMERICANS, even as they acknowledged their roots.
Those new Americans grew up to take over the country, educationally, culturally, and politically. What was the origin of the Kennedys, Eisenhower, and hundreds of others who were “IMMIGRANTS” of the second or third generation.
France seems to have finally seen the fruits of the stupid drive to “Multi-culturalism”. Look around, you and see children, born here, yet unable to speak the “language of the land”, totally unlearned of American history and culture.
To France I can only say, “’Bout time, isn’t it?”
That’s so weird. It’s almost like the French value French citizenship and don’t think it should be passed out to any pedestrian that happens to stumble across their borders. Freaks. </obvious-sarc>
Oh, no hairy ladies. That smell.
They need to go further than that. The French have a negative population growth due to birth control and abortion. They will have to outlaw those for women who have fewer than two children.
While I applaud the move, until they kick out their Muslim population, it’s akin to closing the barn door after the horses have already escaped.
If the Muslims have their way, as they say in their holy book – they will make the “evil berry” illegal (wine), and if they are about to take the Red vin away I say off with their heads! California wine is the best, but God save French wine!
I think this is great – that France is making citizenship count. I wish we would do the same!